Monday, March 28, 2005

REMEMBERING ARCHBISHOP ROMERO

At a time when social justice seems to be an increasingly unpopular subject, we are seeing the kind of bitter divisions between the haves and the have nots that I never thought possible in my country. And oddly it is the haves (who seem to view themselves as the not enoughs) who are particularly splenetic in their bitterness.

Thus, I was especially heartened to hear one of the great heroes of our time, Archbishop Oscar Romero, remembered in two eloquent homilies in my parish church over the weekend, as well as in this oped piece in the Boston Globe. Archbishop Romero clearly never set out to be a radical, much less a martyr. He was simply a man who did what was demanded of him, not flinching or backing down, even when he realized that what would be asked of him was nothing less than his life. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/03/24/the_martyr_of_el_salvador/"

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