Saturday, May 23, 2015

A Victory for Pope Francis

Op-Ed Contributor

A Victory for Pope Francis

The beatification of an assassinated archbishop is an important marker in the routing of hard-line conservatives in the church.


"Following that lead, the appropriate body of theologians universally declared that Archbishop Romero had not been killed for political reasons but had indeed died because of odium fidei — hatred of the faith. Francis promptly officially declared him a martyr, and the path to sainthood was opened.
For Francis this action was self-evident. He had said on his second full day as pope that he wanted “a poor church for the poor.” And he had written in his papal manifesto, Evangelii Gaudium: “We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor.”

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