A self-effacing, slightly built man who feels ill at ease in the limelight with a predilection for hour-long sermons. Hardly the stuff, you’d think, of a five-star preacher – but then Oscar Arnulfo Romero has always defied neat and easy categorisation, as the hundreds of thousands who will gather this weekend in San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital, for his long-awaited beatification, will testify. Latin Americans have enthused about his homilies for the 35 years since his assassination but, for long, the English-speaking world has had to take that recommendation on trust. Not any more.All of Romero’s sermons, from a month after his appointment as Archbishop of San Salvador in February 1977 to his death in March 1980, are being translated into English by J
25 June 2015, The Tablet
A Prophetic Bishop Speaks to His People: volume one
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