To commemorate the anniversary of Archbishop Romero's martyrdom, the Rothko Chapel will be filled with music and spoken word. The Trinity Jazz Ensemble, which performs regularly for Sunday worship at ...

A single gunshot echoed through a small Carmelite chapel in the dingy corners of San Salvador on March 24, 1980. The chapel door had been left open in an attempt to mitigate the blanket of humid heat.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of the capital of El Salvador on Saturday to celebrate as one of Latin America's most revered and controversial religious figures is ...

Pope Francis has declared slain Archbishop Oscar Romero a martyr. Previous popes declined to do so, possibly because of Romero's role in... Decades After His Murder, An Archbishop Is Put On Path To ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Archbishop Oscar Romero was beatified by Roman Catholic officials Saturday in an emotional ceremony elevating the once-controversial cleric to the ranks of the blessed ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated since it went to press. Since Archbishop Oscar Romero’s martyrdom in a hospital chapel in San Salvador while saying Mass in 1980, his legacy as a ...

After Romero was canonised in 2018, Archbishop Escobar Alas of San Salvador had asked Pope Francis to open the process on the ...

Pope Francis and the Vatican have recognized Oscar Romero as a martyr. This may move the name of the late archbishop of San Salvador a little further in the process that could one day make him a saint ...

It’s been 35 years since Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in El Salvador in 1980. But on Saturday, Pope Francis formally recognized the archbishop’s beatification. The ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980 and is an icon of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, has moved closer to ...