When I was a graduate student in history, I wrote my thesis on the life of the El Salvadorian archbishop Oscar Romero. I contended he was a unique figure in that he held closely to many of the ideas of…
Sanctified seeing
The following is the text of a homily I preached earlier this afternoon in a School of Divinity chapel service at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina] John 9 is all about seeing and the inability to see. That’s…
The making of Saint Oscar
It was 35 years ago, on March 24, 1980, that Archbishop Óscar Romero of San Salvador was assassinated, but he has been back in the news this year. After much hesitation, the Catholic Church is now moving toward making him…