El Salvador: Vatican mulls possible miracle by slain cleric

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

El Salvador: Vatican mulls possible miracle by slain cleric

Mar. 5, 2017 5:00 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Roman Catholic authorities in El Salvador said Sunday that the Vatican is studying a possible miracle attributed to slain Archbishop Oscar Romero that could lead to the once-controversial cleric's canonization.

San Salvador Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas told reporters that church officials in the country are "convinced" of the miracle's authenticity. He cautioned that it could take a long time for the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints to consider the matter.

Romero is known to many as "Saint Romero of the Americas." He was loved by the poor whom he defended and hated by conservatives who saw him as aligned with leftist causes ahead of El Salvador's civil war.

Romero was shot by a sniper in 1980 while celebrating Mass at a hospital chapel. He was beatified in 2015.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/27d98289bd904c16adc12d96d9067e2a

[guillaumeb]

1. And the US Government was heavily involved in the slaughter

that led to Romero's death.

That failure to speak out looks benign in contrast to the active role Washington played in the “dirty war” in El Salvador in the 1980s, which pitted a right-wing government against Marxist guerrillas. The United States sent military advisers to help the Salvadoran military fight its dirty war, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and military aid.

https://www.thenation.com/article/time-for-a-us-apology-to-el-salvador/

All part of winning hearts and minds.

[rug]

2. Screw the miracle. This is what Romero was about:

http://www.un.org/en/events/righttotruthday/romero.shtml

[Mendocino]

3. El Salvador

between 1977 and 1989, 12 other priests, 3 nuns and 1 lay worker were murdered there. The number of citizens unknown.

[okasha]

4. Romero is already acknowledged as a saint in the Episcopal Church.

He is one of the ten Modern Martyrs whose likenesses are carved beside the (west?) door of the National Cathedral. Others include Mother Elizabeth of Russia, Martin Luther King and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

[Goblinmonger]

5. The church needs to get over this "miracles" thing.

But they really can't because of tradition.