Francis’ support for Romero cause is exciting because of its urgency – could he be beatified by end of 2015?

Julian Filochowski in El Salvador
20 August 2014, The Tablet

Francis' support for Romero cause is exciting because of its urgency - could he be beatified by end of 2015?

Pope Francis' words (on the plane home from Korea) in regard to Oscar Romero's beatification have brought great joy here in El Salvador and indeed around the world.  But the first media reports have been somewhat misleading. It is important to read what Pope Francis actually said: “The process was blocked in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “for reasons of prudence,” it was said. Now it is unblocked and it is in the Congregation for Saints and follows the normal path of a process. It depends on how the postulators move; it’s very important to move in haste. What I would like is to have clarified when there is martyrdom in "odium fidei" [out of hate for the faith], whether it is for confessing the credo or for performing the works that Jesus c

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