{"id":18082,"date":"2015-02-04T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:06:04","slug":"my-doubts-about-archbishop-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/02\/my-doubts-about-archbishop-romero.html","title":{"rendered":"My Doubts About Archbishop Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"romero\"<\/a>My latest article<\/a> for CRUX is posted today. It recounts my introduction to El Salvadorean Archbishop and martyr Oscar Romero.<\/p>\n

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Amid the high emotion aroused by liberation theology, I was one, conservative by nature, who assumed that Oscar Romero was a Marxist. It was difficult to avoid that conclusion once he had become a poster boy for the left-wing cause. Twenty years later, as a Catholic priest, I retained the same doubts about Archbishop Romero. Then I had the opportunity to take teams of American high school students on mission trips to El Salvador.<\/p>\n

On my mission trips to El Salvador, I took the students to visit the site of Romero\u2019s martyrdom and visit his modest apartment, transformed into a museum full of his belongings, including his broken eyeglasses, breviary, and bloodstained vestments. My conviction was that Archbishop Romero was not a liberation theologian or Marxist, but a good and faithful pastor who stood up valiantly against violence and corruption. Although the perpetrators of violence in his case were right-wing death squads, he spoke out just as firmly against left-wing violence. He may have been friendly with some who were sympathetic to liberation theology, but he was also closely linked to the conservative movement Opus Dei.<\/p>\n

After his martyrdom, Archbishop Romero was hijacked for the leftist cause\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole article here<\/a> at CRUX<\/p>\n

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