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Pope denounces clergy who criticized slain Salvadoran bishop Romero
Source: Reuters
World | Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:48pm EDT
Pope denounces clergy who criticized slain Salvadoran bishop Romero
VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA
Pope Francis on Friday criticized conservative clergy and bishops who he said had defamed slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero even after he was killed by a right-wing death squad in 1980.
The pope departed from his prepared address to a group of visiting Salvadorans to deliver unusually pointed remarks about the past detractors of Romero, who was beatified last May in El Salvador, putting him a step away from sainthood.
"His martyrdom continued (even after his death). He was defamed, slandered ... even by his own brothers in the priesthood and the episcopate,” Francis said.
Francis said Romero, who was shot while saying Mass in a hospital chapel, had been lapidated even after his death by "the hardest stone that exists in the world: the tongue."
Romero, whose defense of the poor made him an icon for many Roman Catholics in Latin America, was beatified as a martyr for the faith.
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Pope denounces clergy who criticized slain Salvadoran bishop Romero
VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA
Pope Francis on Friday criticized conservative clergy and bishops who he said had defamed slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero even after he was killed by a right-wing death squad in 1980.
The pope departed from his prepared address to a group of visiting Salvadorans to deliver unusually pointed remarks about the past detractors of Romero, who was beatified last May in El Salvador, putting him a step away from sainthood.
"His martyrdom continued (even after his death). He was defamed, slandered ... even by his own brothers in the priesthood and the episcopate,” Francis said.
Francis said Romero, who was shot while saying Mass in a hospital chapel, had been lapidated even after his death by "the hardest stone that exists in the world: the tongue."
Romero, whose defense of the poor made him an icon for many Roman Catholics in Latin America, was beatified as a martyr for the faith.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/30/us-pope-romero-idUSKCN0SO2UA20151030
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