The world today is badly in need of hope and the late Archbishop Oscar Romero is a “figure of hope”, Cardinal Michael ...

It is still hard for St. Oscar Romero’s cousin to talk about the day the Archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated.

Trump is showing flagrant disregard for due process and constitutional protections against racial discrimination.

The apostolic nunciature in El Salvador issued a correction for irregularities during a Mass marking the 45th anniversary of ...

Then Cardinal McElroy read the account of the Parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke 10:25-37, in which a man ...

The event fell on the 45th anniversary of the killing of St. Oscar Romero, an El Salvadoran bishop who was assassinated at a ...

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, the chairman of the US Catholic Bishops Conference’s Committee on Migration, delivered strong ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 1984.

Monsignor Romero ascended to the position of Archbishop in 1977, a period marked by increasing brutality from U.S.-trained death squads. These executions claimed approximately 800 lives each month, ...