{"id":45196,"date":"2015-05-23T22:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T02:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=45196"},"modified":"2015-05-23T22:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T02:54:35","slug":"barack-obama-hails-beatification-of-oscar-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2015\/05\/barack-obama-hails-beatification-of-oscar-romero\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama hails beatification of Oscar Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<br>\n<\/p><center>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 395px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 150.379747% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/467026338?et=9LM5Hi4wSHRQhzoeqkwfyA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=i1FKPgaDOOrp7q3ap_qLl6djiON4MOtc3rH9nqTnDkg=\" width=\"395\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/467026338\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><br>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/living\/religion\/article21911121.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>McClatchy:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A papal envoy Saturday declared slain Archbishop \u00d3scar Romero \u201cblessed\u201d in a ceremony that drew hundreds of thousands of people and moved the Catholic martyr one step closer to sainthood 35 years after a sniper\u2019s bullet felled him at the altar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Known as a champion of the poor and a voice for the voiceless, Romero was slain in 1980 at the outset of a civil war that lasted for a dozen years. His beatification had been blocked for three decades by conservatives in the church hierarchy until Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, ordered that it move forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">As throngs stood under a hazy tropical sun, Francis\u2019 representative, Cardinal Angelo Amato, speaking in Latin, read the decree of beatification, drawing a roar of approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">As church bells pealed, robed seminarians hefted onto their shoulders a carriage containing a glass enclosure with the bloody shirt Romero was wearing the day of his assassination and paraded before six cardinals and some 100 bishops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Also attending the ceremony were the presidents of Panama and Ecuador and delegations from two dozen countries. Church estimates put the crowd size at well over 250,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The slain archbishop henceforth will be known as Blessed \u00d3scar Romero, although some at the ceremony said they consider canonization inevitable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHe\u2019s a saint. Saint Romero. Let him perform miracles,\u201d said Erminia Medrano Hern\u00e1ndez as she stood in a crush near the open-air flower-bedecked stage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<blockquote><p>\u2026In a letter Saturday to the current archbishop of San Salvador, the pope called for \u201ctrue national reconciliation\u201d and said Romero distinguished himself for his concern for \u201cthe poor and the marginalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama, in a statement, hailed the church\u2019s new direction under Francis. \u201cI am grateful to Pope Francis for his leadership in reminding us of our obligation to help those most in need, and for his decision to beatify Blessed Oscar Arnulfo Romero,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/living\/religion\/article21911121.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read it all.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/center><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 View image | gettyimages.com From McClatchy:\u00a0 A papal envoy Saturday declared slain Archbishop \u00d3scar Romero \u201cblessed\u201d in a ceremony that drew hundreds of thousands of people and moved the Catholic martyr one step closer to sainthood 35 years after a sniper\u2019s bullet felled him at the altar. 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