More than 35 years after Blessed Romero’s death, documentation regarding an alleged miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Romero is being studied at the Vatican.
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Opposition to Óscar Romero’s canonization was ‘political,’ Archbishop Paglia says
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator for the cause of Blessed Óscar Romero, experienced firsthand pushback against the archbishop’s canonization.
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Archbishop Paglia: Opposition to Óscar Romero’s cause for sainthood was ‘political’
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia talks with James Martin, S.J., about the canonization of Blessed Óscar Romero.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis will canonize two of the children who saw Our Lady of Fatima
Jacinta and Francisco will be the youngest children ever to be recognized as saints by the church.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
El Salvador holds hope for its saint in waiting, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande
In El Salvador, there is a yearning that the intercession of Blessed Oscar Romero will help the beatification cause of his martyred Jesuit friend, Father Rutilio Grande.
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Treating saints like superheroes is a dangerous game.
We have to take the saints down from their pedestals.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The manhunt for a martyr’s killers
‘The Assassination of a Saint’ begins like a crime thriller, complete with a criminal manhunt.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Dorothy Day: Future Saint, Imperfect Parent
Kate Hennessey’s new book is a searingly honest look at Dorothy Day the mother.
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Gustavo Gutierrez on Romero’s Beatification
America interviewed Gustavo Gutierrez in El Salvador on May 24, 2015, the day after Oscar Romero’s beatification.
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Martyred Salvadoran Inspires
Catholics in a Washington church discuss how the soon-to-be beatified Archbishop Oscar Romero impacts their faith.