Romero’s resurrection

“I have often been threatened with death,” Archbishop Oscar Romero told a Guatemalan reporter two weeks before his assassination, 30 years ago on March 24, 1980. (John Dear SJ, NCR)

US knew of planned Salvador Jesuit murders: Prosecutor

Thousands of pages of declassified US documents appear to indicate that the CIA and US State Department had foreknowledge of the plan to kill six prominent El Salvador Jesuits in 1989.
The documents, which were presented to Spain’s National Court by attorneys representing the victims’ families, provide new clues that could lead to an increase in [...]

El Salvador remembers Jesuit martyrs

El Salvador has commemorated the 20th anniversary of the murder by soldiers of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.
“The Salvadoran brothers to whom we pay homage today gave their lives so that El Salvador might get out of its infernal cycle … that breeds death, and get on the road of reconciliation,” President [...]