Editor's Note: This article has been updated since it went to press. Since Archbishop Oscar Romero’s martyrdom in a hospital chapel in San Salvador while saying Mass in 1980, his legacy as a ...

After Romero was canonised in 2018, Archbishop Escobar Alas of San Salvador had asked Pope Francis to open the process on the grounds that Romero’s, “highly ...

In a Home Depot parking lot beside a freeway on-ramp in this city northeast of Los Angeles, a woman sang to a small crowd in ...

Pope Francis has declared slain Archbishop Oscar Romero a martyr. Previous popes declined to do so, possibly because of Romero's role in... Decades After His Murder, An Archbishop Is Put On Path To ...

A single gunshot echoed through a small Carmelite chapel in the dingy corners of San Salvador on March 24, 1980. The chapel door had been left open in an attempt to mitigate the blanket of humid heat.

The Most Reverend John Wilson, Archbishop of Southwark, gave this homily today at the Mass of Thanksgiving in St George's Cathedral, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Archbishop Romero Trust and ...

"Both Trusts, in different but converging ways, have sought to keep alive the radiant witness of a man whose entire life was shaped by his faith in Christ: St Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San ...

Pope Francis and the Vatican have recognized Oscar Romero as a martyr. This may move the name of the late archbishop of San Salvador a little further in the process that could one day make him a saint ...

I read with great interest the recent news that Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador will soon be canonized. Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to Romero, clearing the way for his ...

It’s been 35 years since Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in El Salvador in 1980. But on Saturday, Pope Francis formally recognized the archbishop’s beatification. The ...