ROME (ITALY)
The New York Times
October 14, 2018
By Elisabetta Povoledo
Thirty-eight years after being gunned down in a hospital church in El Salvador, Archbishop Óscar Romero was named a saint on Sunday to cheers in St. Peter’s Square, while thousands watched the ceremony on video monitors in the Salvadoran capital.
Pope Francis also canonized Pope Paul VI, who is credited with continuing begun by Pope John XXIII and bringing the church into the modern era with a series of reforms wrought from the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
In his homily, Francis said Archbishop Romero “left the security of the world, even his own safety, in order to give his life according to the Gospel, close to the poor and to his people.” Of the pope, he said, “Even in the midst of tiredness and misunderstanding, Paul VI bore witness in a passionate way to the beauty and the joy of following Christ totally.”
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