VATICAN (Agencies): During the 2007 assembly of the conference of Latin American bishops in Aparecida, Brazil, a priest asked Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, what he thought about the slain Bishop Oscar Romero. Bergoglio reportedly said that “to me (Romero) is a saint and a martyr … If I were pope, I would have already canonised him.” Now he is the pope and he will do so on October 14.
As the world Synod of Bishops began at the Vatican, thousands of pilgrims get ready to witness the October 14 canonisation of Blessed Oscar Romero, together with Blessed Paul VI and four other new saints.
As archbishop of San Salvador, Romero was an outspoken social justice advocate who championed the poor and denounced...
