{"id":25437,"date":"2010-03-24T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/oscar-arnulfo-romero-y-galdame\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:16:28","slug":"oscar-arnulfo-romero-y-galdame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/oscar-arnulfo-romero-y-galdame\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar A. Romero: 30 years since his assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Garamond; &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;\nmso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/%C3%93scar%20Arnulfo%20Romero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"\u00d3scar Arnulfo Romero.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/\u00d3scar Arnulfo Romero-thumb-250x250-6048.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of\u00a0Oscar A. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, in El Salvador. He was murdered\u00a0while celebrating Mass at a cancer hospital where he lived. Finishing the\u00a0homily, a group of military death squad shot Romero.<\/p>\n<div>\u00d3scar Arnulfo Romero y Gald\u00e1mez\u00a0was the fourth archbishop of San Salvador, (August 15, 1917 &#8211; March 24, 1980).\u00a0It is noted that during his time as the archbishop he had a conversion in which\u00a0the Lord gave him the grace to be closer to his people and to preach the gospel\u00a0of Jesus Christ which sets people free from those things which shackle us: the\u00a0disordered desires of money, power, and fame. Also, the murders of 12 Catholic priests during his three years as archbishop of San Salvador. Romero denounced injustice and violations of human rights in El Salvador and supported public demonstrations for of the people for freedom.\u00a0He was the voice of the Salvadoran people when all other voices were killed off\u00a0or otherwise silenced.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1997, Archbishops Arturo Rivera and then Fernando S\u00e1enz Lacalle (a priest of\u00a0Opus Dei) opened and fostered the cause for canonization for Romero, and Pope John Paul II\u00a0gave him the title of Servant of God. The process continues, even surpassing certain hurdles.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onlineministries.creighton.edu\/CollaborativeMinistry\/romero.html\">Remembering Archbishop Oscar Romero<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; and\u00a0watch a <em>Rome Reports<\/em> <strong>v<a href=\"http:\/\/www.romereports.com\/palio\/modules.php?t=New-energy-behind-monsignor-Oscar-Romero%92s-beatification&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;newlang=english&amp;sid=1804\">ideo on the Romero cause<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of\u00a0Oscar A. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, in El Salvador. He was murdered\u00a0while celebrating Mass at a cancer hospital where he lived. Finishing the\u00a0homily, a group of military death squad shot Romero. \u00d3scar Arnulfo Romero y Gald\u00e1mez\u00a0was the fourth archbishop of San Salvador, (August 15, 1917 &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/oscar-arnulfo-romero-y-galdame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oscar A. Romero: 30 years since his assassination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1720,31958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29749,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions\/29749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}