El Salvador

What would Oscar Romero say today about El Salvador? (COMMENTARY)

By Timothy Kesicki — May 19, 2015
(RNS) “On this point there is no possible neutrality. We either serve the life of Salvadorans or we are accomplices in their death. … We either believe in a God of life or we serve the idols of death.”

Oscar Romero declared a martyr as Vatican inches him toward sainthood

By Josephine McKenna — January 9, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Romero's sainthood cause languished amid lingering Vatican suspicion of Liberation Theology, which flourished under Romero and was suppressed by both Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Vatican says no movement (yet) on sainthood for Oscar Romero

By Josephine McKenna — May 15, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Fans of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero want Pope Francis to declare him a martyr and place him on the path to sainthood, but Vatican officials say no official action has been taken yet.

Vatican showdown the latest chapter in Sister Pat Farrell’s dramatic life

By David Gibson — August 2, 2012

(RNS) Sister Pat Farrell is at the center of one of the biggest crises in the Catholic Church, representing the majority of U.S. nuns in their looming showdown with the Vatican. But this is hardly the most difficult or dramatic episode in her life. By David Gibson.

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