Oscar Romero: prophet of hopeRoberto Morozzo Della Rocca(Dartman, Longman & Todd, 256 PP, £9.99)Tablet bookshop price £9 • Tel 01420 592974
The cry “Santo Romero” went up in Latin America, and around the world, almost immediately after the gun that killed Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador on 24 March 1980 was fired. Yet 35 years were to pass before Romero’s beatification in May 2015. It was, at last, a formal recognition of his holiness. A Christian account of holiness speaks of an integration of vision, words and action in the imitation of Christ. It is not any old holiness – nor is to be confused with “wholeness”. Oscar Romero’s life fits this account. Roberto Morozzo Della Rocca, a historian at R
11 February 2016, The Tablet
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