978-0-88344-525-9 Voice of the Voiceless The Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements
by
Oscar Romero
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208pp
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Book Description The late Archbishop's powerful words on behalf of his Salvadoran people, including Romero's final homily delivered just before his assassination.
“Like the prophets and like Jesus, Romero spoke the truth and paid the prophet’s price with the offering of his life. Like Jesus he testified to the validity of his words by the quality of his deeds, and his testimony in word and deed was faithful until the moment when he offered his life for his people. Because the Archbishop’s testimony was so evidently that of ‘the just man’ of whom the Book of Wisdom speaks, because he was so clearly in the tradition of Jeremiah and Jesus, his words demand our attention: the words he spoke to his countrymen and the words he spoke to us as American citizens.
“In the complex, tragic, and violent struggle for justice in El Salvador, the Archbishop exemplified what the Latin American bishops at Puebla called ‘a preferential option for the poor.’ As a pastor he spoke the truth to all in his society, but he spoke with and for the poor. . . . The assassin’s bullet with not silence the power of his words, or his witness.” —Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, O.P., at a memorial Mass for Archbishop Romero, March 29th, 1980
