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Archbishop Oscar Romero said, “If I am killed, I will be resurrected in my community.”
Today, he lives in his people, depicted here symbolically wearing his bullet holes.
Roman Catholic priests and nuns are routinely excommunicated in Central America
for their political activism. While technically booted from their Church, they continue
their work without missing a beat, believing, as one priest told me, “Part of our vow of
obedience to the Church is disobedience to the Church.”
Oscar Romero is not yet a saint. While the Vatican sends mixed signals, the local
Catholic hierarchy is gradually trying to sanitize his image to be less offensive to the rich.
But priests, nuns, and people throughout Central America are not waiting. For them, Os-
car Romero is already “San Romero.”
Gathering at a hotel on the last night of our educational tour of El Salvador, we enjoyed
a trio of guitarists. They were “100 percent popular” (the safe term used for anything per-
