“A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel
that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, what
Gospel is that?”—Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980), The Violence of Love,
translated by James R. Brockman
Among the visible signs of a seismic shift at the Vatican in the
wake of Pope Francis’ election is the announcement that the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero had been “unblocked.” The archbishop, murdered in El
Salvador while celebrating Mass in March 1980, seems, in all his passionate advocacy for the poor, like just the kind of
prelate favored by the new pontiff.
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