{"id":53,"date":"2015-06-15T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2015\/06\/death-and-beatification-of-archbishop-romero.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:24:52","slug":"death-and-beatification-of-archbishop-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2015\/06\/death-and-beatification-of-archbishop-romero.html","title":{"rendered":"Death and Beatification of Archbishop Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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In 1977, San Salvador cautiously welcomed a new archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. \u00a0Three years later, the archbishop was killed by a single bullet shot from the backseat of a car parked outside the chapel where he was celebrating Mass. \u00a0Thirty-five years later, the same man was declared a martyr by Pope Francis and was beatified in San Salvador on May 23rd, 2015 at a ceremony attended by about half a million faithful, including 100 bishops and 1400 concelebrating priests. \u00a0Among the many priests were Father Tom Peyton from Saint Michael, Tybee Island and me.<\/div>\n
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For the Church to declare a martyr, evidence must surface that the person was killed out of hatred for the faith. \u00a0The person carrying out the execution must have been motivated directly out of a disregard for the Gospel, not political, personal or any other reason. \u00a0For years Romero\u2019s case was carefully studied in Rome due to accusations that the Archbishop had been killed for political reasons and not out of hatred for the faith. \u00a0The case was eventually blocked until Pope Benedict XVI ordered the case reopened. \u00a0While in Brazil in 2007, Benedict described Archbishop Romero as a \u201cgreat witness of the faith, a man of great Christian virtue who worked for peace and against the dictatorship and was assassinated while celebrating Mass.\u201d \u00a0Benedict accurately identified the reason why the case remained blocked for so many years by stating, \u201cthe problem was that a political party wrongly wished to use him as their badge; as an emblematic figure.\u201d \u00a0Rome feared that the modern remnant of once leftist guerrillas would feel vindicated by Romero\u2019s beatification. \u00a0Benedict concluded, \u201cRomero merits beatification, I do not doubt.\u201d \u00a0Pope Francis, as a fellow Latin American bishop, certainly gave Romero\u2019s cause its last push so his beatification would become a reality.<\/p>\n

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Romero spoke openly against the right-wing government of El Salvador, which was actively persecuting the Church and killing thousands of innocent civilians. \u00a0The day before he was martyred, he made an emotional plea to the men of the army, National Guard, police and military. \u00a0During his Sunday homily at the cathedral he said, \u201cyou are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, \u2018thou shalt not kill.\u2019 \u00a0No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God\u2026. It is time you\u2026 obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. \u00a0The Church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination. \u00a0In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.\u201d<\/p>\n

With these words Romero had crossed a line. \u00a0For the government, he was calling for insubordination. \u00a0For him, he was proclaiming the Gospel. \u00a0In the same way Jesus Christ did not intend to enter politics but was executed with the political charge of \u201cking of the Jews,\u201d Archbishop Romero, who did not intend to enter politics, was accused of politicking while he was simply proclaiming the Gospel.<\/p>\n

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It was an honor to be part of a ceremony that recognized the courage of a man who admitted he was fearful of a violent death. \u00a0Blessed Romero became a voice for the voiceless, and his words still echo throughout Latin America where millions still labor tirelessly to create a society where Gospel values are not only preached but lived. \u00a0His witness is worthy to be imitated, especially by priests and all those who come face to face with oppression and injustice. \u00a0Using the words of Saint John Paul II, Romero certainly \u201cbelongs to the Church,\u201d and by beatifying him, the Church presents him as a model of Christian witness that loves like Jesus Christ, even to the point of death.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/i>Article about the Four American Church women killed in El Salvador<\/a><\/p>\n

Article about Archbishop Romero with pictures<\/a><\/p>\n

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