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Pope Paves Way for Sainthood for Paul VI and Archbishop Óscar Romero

2018-03-08 9 Dailymotion

Pope Paves Way for Sainthood for Paul VI and Archbishop Óscar Romero<br />They both cared for the poor and social justice, and Pope Paul VI encouraged Romero all his life long." The<br />approval of the miracles was the last step required for Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Romero to be canonized.<br />By GAIA PIANIGIANIMARCH 7, 2018<br />ROME — Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of Pope Paul VI, who led the Roman Catholic Church through turmoil in the 1960s<br />and ’70s, and the slain Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, the Vatican announced on Wednesday.<br />Months before, on the eve of the country’s civil war, Archbishop Romero had angered many in the country’s military dictatorship by writing to President Jimmy Carter to ask<br />that the United States halt military aid to El Salvador, and by repeatedly calling for an end to the brutal killings of political opponents.<br />Archbishop Óscar Romero of San Salvador, who defended the poor<br />and the oppressed in his homilies and radio broadcasts, was shot and killed while he was saying Mass in a hospital chapel in El Salvador on March 24, 1980.<br />Francis, however, declared the archbishop a model of peace<br />and forgiveness in 2015, honoring the Salvadoran as a martyr in "hatred of the faith." The pope beatified the archbishop in San Salvador months later.<br />Francis approved the decrees on Tuesday confirming miracles attributed to the intercession of the former pontiff<br />and the Salvadoran archbishop, the Holy See said in a statement.

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