Oscar Romero
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
OSCAR ROMERO ARCHBISHOP
- promised history that life, not death, would have the last word.
- "I do not believe in death without resurrection"
- "If they kill me, I will be resurrected in the Salvadoran people."
- People march through the streets carrying promise printed on thousands of banners.
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OSCAR ROMERO AND THE POOR
- Kept promise winning him the enmity of the government and military, and a astonishing love of the poor
- "God needs the people themselves," he said, "to save the world . . . The world of the...
- ...poor teaches us that liberation will arrive only when the poor are not simply on the...
- ...receiving end of hand-outs from governments or from the churches, but when the...
- ...themselves are the masters and protagonists of their own struggle for liberation."
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OSCAR ROMERO ON THE WAR
- Oscar Romero gave his last homily on March 24.
- "One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life
- that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives."
- Romero begged for international intervention.
- Romero refused to ever attend a government function until the repression of the people was stopped
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OSCAR ROMERO ON WAR
- In 1980 the war claimed the lives of 3,000 per month,
- Cadavers clogging the streams
- Tortured bodies thrown in garbage dumps and the streets of the capitol weekly.
- Salvadoran bishops turned their backs on him, going so far as to send a...
- ...secret document to Rome reporting him, accusing him of being "politicized"
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OSCAR ROMERO DEATH
- Romero's murder was a savage warning.
- Even some who attended Romero's funeral were shot down in front of the cathedral by...
- ...army sharpshooters on rooftops. To this day no investigation has revealed Romero's...
- ...killers. What endures is Romero's promise.
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