The Last Days of Oscar Romero

The first comment is profound in understanding of what is before us.Do we want a plastic saint?I do ,it is easier to deal with and to put to one side,   all that challenges the human "i".Romero struggled with his conception of faith and the Lord allowed him to be stripped bare and left trembling before the bullets that awaited him.It would be false to imagine him as an easy saint,a man of the people unconscious of all the misery and compromise that would mean.The Church will declare him a Saint not because he managed to manage his sexual desires but because he looked death in the face and testified to something even greater.Jesus Christ. His seminary training betrayed him as it did most of his generation but his inner power allowed him to undergo something most of us would betray. a nation for and that is what makes him a saint.Nothing of the left in Romero, but his holiness is something that excites in all of us a desire for something more.