Pope’s Address to Pilgrims Celebrating Blessed Oscar Romero

[Judi Lynn]

2. Good article. Appreciated this excerpt:

It had been stalled under popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI because conservative Latin American Church leaders saw Romero as having been too close to Liberation Theology, a radical movement that emphasised helping the poor and opposing injustice.

The conservatives had accused Romero, who spoke out against the Salvadoran government and often denounced repression and poverty in his homilies, of having been an advocate of a Marxist-style class struggle.

They asserted that he was killed for his political views and not for his faith.

The murder was one of the most shocking of the long conflict between a series of U.S.-backed governments and leftist rebels in which thousands were killed by right-wing and military death squads. No one was ever brought to justice for Romero's killing.

Conservatives are 100% opposed to "helping the poor and opposing injustice." They oppose the poor, and insist upon injustice.

They asserted that he was killed for his political views and not for his faith.

Political views ARE moral views. Men's, women's political views are entirely connected to their moral beliefs.

Hope this pope will be with us a long, long time. The world has needed such a courageous, moral man in his place.