Romero, who was assassinated in 1980, paid the ultimate price for his outspokenness. The potency of his mythology was something that his enemies had not counted on.

In a country where Óscar Romero's visage is seemingly everywhere — on street corners, ... Multiple legacies of St. Óscar Romero reflect his identities, 40 years after death. News.

We know Archbishop Romero was focused on prayer at the moment of his death, preparing for that prayer said during the Eucharist at Masses each day all over the world.

Memories of Romero: When word of the murder reached him that March day in 1980, Tony Arteaga, now working at Dolores Mission in LA, rushed to where the archbishop's body had been taken.

Oscar Romero, The Murdered ... Years later, a U.N. commission found that a leader of the right-wing death squads had ordered his assassination. Sponsor Message. But just before he was shot, ...

Archbishop Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.-backed right-wing death squad, March 24th, 1980, the beginning of the brutal U.S.-backed war in El Salvador.

Los Angeles nurse Lina Sandoval was 10 years old when Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated in 1980. “That day was really sad,” the Salvadoran immigrant recalled Sunday ...

Romero, who stood up to a violent regime, was killed by a right-wing death squad on a church altar in 1980. He was a strong influence on Pope Francis, who was born in Argentina, NPR's Sylvia ...

Pope Francis is soon to beatify the late Monseñor Óscar Romero, the archbishop of El Salvador who was assassinated in 1980 by a right-wing, pro-capitalist death squad. Unlike others whom Francis ...

Romero developed enemies in El Salvador's right-wing government for his outspoken opposition to violence and widespread popularity. He was shot dead by a sniper in 1980.

Oscar Levi Dominguez was 8 years old the last time his father took him to hear Archbishop Oscar Romero speak outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador.