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San Salvador (AFP) - Oscar Romero, the murdered Salvadoran cleric canonized Sunday by Pope Francis, was a powerful orator who used his pulpit to denounce rampant military repression and social injustice. As archbishop of San Salvador, Romero emerged as a "voice of the voiceless" during intense social and political conflict in El Salvador. |
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Esther Chavez vividly remembers the day in 1980 when a voice through a university loudspeaker delivered the news: San Salvador's Catholic Archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, had been fatally shot. “Everyone went crazy,” said Chavez, a New Jersey-based community activist who left El Salvador decades ago. |
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A quick death might have been better than this. That's what Dunn expected when she left in 1976, forced out by a federal government that planned to bury Walpack under a man-made lake created by a proposed dam across the Delaware. Two years later the dam was cancelled. |
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A quick death might have been better than this. That's what Dunn expected when she left in 1976, forced out by a federal government that planned to bury Walpack under a man-made lake created by a proposed dam across the Delaware. Two years later the dam was cancelled. |
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A quick death might have been better than this. That's what Dunn expected when she left in 1976, forced out by a federal government that planned to bury Walpack under a man-made lake created by a proposed dam across the Delaware. Two years later the dam was cancelled. |
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If you stand in this village long enough, you can watch it disappear. Wait by a leaning tombstone in the old Walpack graveyard as the fog rolls down Flat Brook and envelops the town whole. Drive the narrow country roads after midnight, roll down your windows and breathe deeply, sniffing for gasoline.... |
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Pope Francis will wear a blood-stained rope belt which belonged to Romero, who was murdered at the altar, as he leads the ceremony in front of some 60,000 pilgrims and heads of state from across the world. The pontiff will also use a chalice and pastoral staff belonging to Paul VI in a canonization.... |
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If you stand in this village long enough, you can watch it disappear. Wait by a leaning tombstone in the old Walpack graveyard as the fog rolls down Flat Brook and envelops the town whole. Drive the narrow country roads after midnight, roll down your windows and breathe deeply, sniffing for gasoline.... |
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A quick death might have been better than this. That's what Dunn expected when she left in 1976, forced out by a federal government that planned to bury Walpack under a man-made lake created by a proposed dam across the Delaware. Two years later the dam was cancelled. |
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If you stand in this village long enough, you can watch it disappear. Wait by a leaning tombstone in the old Walpack graveyard as the fog rolls down Flat Brook and envelops the town whole. Drive the narrow country roads after midnight, roll down your windows and breathe deeply, sniffing for gasoline.... |
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A quick death might have been better than this. That's what Dunn expected when she left in 1976, forced out by a federal government that planned to bury Walpack under a man-made lake created by a proposed dam across the Delaware. Two years later the dam was cancelled. |
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