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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Jan 9, 2015, 02:17 PM Jan 2015

Oscar Romero declared a martyr as Vatican inches him toward sainthood

Josephine McKenna

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Archbishop Oscar Romero, the hero of the Catholic left who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass in El Salvador, is inching one step closer to sainthood after his case languished in bureaucratic limbo for decades.

According to the Italian Catholic bishops daily, Avvenire, a panel of theologians at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has ruled unanimously that Romero should be considered a martyr, or murdered “in odium fidei” (Latin for “hatred of faith”).

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/01/09/oscar-romero-declared-martyr-vatican-inches-toward-sainthood/

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