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... funded war the UN Truth Commission called genocidal, the soon-to-be-assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero promised history that life, not death, would have the last word. ...
Oscar Romero gave his last homily on March 24. ...
Romero begged for international intervention. ...
Unlike them, Romero had refused to ever attend a government job until the fear of the people was stopped. ...
The night Romero drove out of the capitol to Paisnal to view Grandes body and the old man and seven year old who were killed with him. In a packed country church Romero came across the silent strength of peasants who were facing rising terror. ...
Romero already understood the church is more than the hierarchy, Rome, theologians or clerics—more than an institution—but that night he experienced the people as church. ... All Romero had to offer the people were weekly homilies broadcast throughout the country, his voice assuring them, not that atrocities would cease, but that the church of the poor, themselves, would live on.
Approximate Word count = 785
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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