Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, símbolo de una Iglesia cercana a los pobres, será beatificado el sábado aunque los salvadoreños ya lo arropan como un santo al que rezan por un país más justo y lo ...

In March 1980, Patricia Morales Tijerino and her sister had just left a wedding in a little chapel in El Salvador's capital and were on their way to the reception. "And then I spotted him," Morales ...

SAN SALVADORSAN SALVADOR — Decenas de salvadoreños y extranjeros participaron el jueves en una colorida peregrinación para recordar los 42 años del asesinato de monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, que en ...

When Salvadoran human rights activist Marisa de Martínez speaks about Óscar Romero, the subject inevitably becomes personal — deeply and tragically personal. She finds in Romero a model and beacon for ...

Like many, I'm hopeful about the new Jesuit pope from Latin America who takes the name Francis, but I'm concerned about reports of his silence during Argentina's "Dirty War." I grieve, too, as we mark ...

A special Mass in Los Angeles on Sunday will honor seven people, including former Pope Paul VI and slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as they’re elevated to sainthood during a canonization ...

Celebrations in El Salvador honored the life of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was beatified on Saturday. Catholics paid tribute to the man who fought for the poor during the country's civil war.

I can think of no modern churchman who deserves the title “saint” more than Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the martyred archbishop of San Salvador, who was assassinated 30 years ago today. He was the first ...

Reporting from Rome — After he was killed, they burned his photographs and nearly every memento they had of their friend. The rest they buried in their garden, just beneath their guava tree. Maria ...

Archbishop Oscar Romero has been the informal patron saint of El Salvador since he was murdered by a right-wing death squad while saying mass in 1980 -- but now it's official. On Sunday, he was ...