It is now 35 years since Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated by a marksman’s bullet as he celebrated a Requiem Mass in the chapel of the cancer hospital where he lived. Throughout his three years as archbishop his country was in turmoil; a tiny group of land-owning families and the military government were blocking land reform and social change in the central American nation of El Salvador through massive electoral fraud and violent repression of any protest. Romero was a passionate exponent of the Second Vatican Council and could quote from the whole corpus of Catholic Social Teaching and the Latin American Church’s commitments made at Medellín and Puebla. He saw the plight of the poor and put himself alongside them and applied that church teachi