San Romero de América: El Salvador’s Murdered Archbishop Óscar Romero Declared a Saint of the Catholic Church

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Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis officially recognized him as a saint, three years after his beatification. Though originally recognized as a conservative cleric, Romero became an outspoken critic of the increasing political violence tolerated by El Salvador’s government at that time, mostly perpetrated by its paramilitary allies. After his murder, Romero was immediately seen as a martyr killed for his vocal defense of human rights. Francis also canonized Pope Paul VI, who oversaw the reform and modernization of the Church in the 1960s. Latin Americans greeted the long-awaited ceremony as a highly symbolic and significant event.

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