Vatican official: Romero saint effort 'unblocked'

[Judi Lynn]

Vatican official: Romero saint effort 'unblocked'
Associated Press
Posted on April 22, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Updated today at 12:36 PM

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican official spearheading the case to make slain Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador a saint said Tuesday the process is moving forward under Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, after years of delay under previous popes.

Separately Tuesday, an Italian religious affairs magazine reported that a panel of Vatican-appointed doctors had moved Pope John Paul II a step closer to possible sainthood by signing off on a second miracle attributed to his intercession.

Pope Francis has already shown that he is keen to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors by approving candidates for possible sainthood: In his first such decision March 28, Francis cleared dozens of martyrs from the Spanish civil war to be beatified, the key milestone toward being canonized. Francis' election as the first Latin American pope has given hope to many that Romero would finally be declared a martyr for the faith and beatified.

Romero was gunned down in 1980 while celebrating Mass after stridently defending El Salvador's poor and denouncing the government's violence. His killing was one of the triggers that set off a civil war that left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing over the next 12 years.

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[naaman fletcher]

1. Of course

The miracles that will be attributed to him are bullshit, but if they are going to make shit up to create saints, it might as will be for a man who did real good on earth, like Romero.