Óscar Romero
The Shepherd Who Would Not Be Silent
I spoke truth when silence was safest.
I once preferred books to crowds, silence to shouts. Then I saw the blood of the innocent soak into the soil of El Salvador, and I could no longer stay quiet. From my cathedral to the hills, I named the horrors and called for justice—not politics, but the Gospel. They killed me for it. But here I am. Still speaking.
What I'm Into: Sunday homilies, the campesinos, radio waves carrying truth, clandestine graves, my martyr's silence
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