Oscar Romero

WATCH: Fighting Racism With Urban Farming

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.02.2012

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Daniel Klein

The ideas of cooperative work are central to many movements in Latin America. Nelson Escobar has brought those ideas from his home in El Salvador to Louisville, Kentucky.

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Did You Celebrate Hoodie Sunday?

Rev. Amy Ziettlow | Posted 05.27.2012

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Rev. Amy Ziettlow

Wearing a hoodie may seem like a superficial thing we can do with our individual bodies, but if in doing so we show our solidarity as one body of humanity then I will don a hoodie.

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Oliver Stone's Salvador Still Relevant At 25th Anniversary

Lonna Saunders | Posted 01.11.2012

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Lonna Saunders

"My first directing effort, Salvador (1986), was at times a cauldron, and I thought it might be my last", said Oliver Stone at the New York Film Festival.

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Santo Immediatamente! The Case For Beatifying Archbishop Oscar Romero

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 08.01.2011

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Rev. James Martin, S.J.

Romero's faith moved him from being a tool of the wealthy to a champion of the poor, a church leader dedicated to reconciliation and a bishop unafraid to interpose himself between violence and his flock.

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Glenn Beck vs. Christ the Liberator

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rev. James Martin, S.J.

It's not hard to see what Beck has against "liberation theology." It's the same reason people are often against "social justice." Both ideas ask us to consider the plight of the poor.

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Not Throwing Stones: A Protestant Remembers The Best Of The Catholic Church

Serene Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Serene Jones

As a Protestant, I refuse to throw self-righteous stones against Catholics. It is not only in politics that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. No church is immune. No person is.

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Archbishop Oscar Romero: Thirty Years and Little Learned

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Despite the actions of the mighty Texas Board of Education to erase his memory, Archbishop Romero will be long remembered as a friend of the oppressed and a champion of the poor.

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Uncovering The Death Squads In El Salvador

Nieman Watchdog | Craig Pyes | Posted 05.25.2011

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March 24 is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. He was shot in the heart by a right wing death sq...

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Filmmaker Links Bloodshed of El Salvador to Washington (VIDEO)

Greg Barrett | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Barrett

Viewers see for themselves how the war drags on long after "peace" was declared.

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Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul?

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jim Luce

As I approach my fiftieth birthday, I am feeling incomplete. Part of me - my soul? - is still missing. In secular terms, I think I am not yet in tou...

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