The Mouse that Roared: A Review of “Romero”

The Mouse that Roared: a Review of “Romero”  Brad Miner reviews the re-release of the 1989 biopic of Óscar Romero, one of the Church's newest saints, evocative an era, a man, and very worth watching. A man can only take so much.             Fr. Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, among the Church’s newest saints (along with Paul VI and five others canonized today), was basically a scholarly type. In his homily upon installation as archbishop of San Salvador, the bespectacled Romero said apologetically, “I come from a world of books.” He was thought to be a church mouse, aligned with the Salvadoran establishment, and chosen to be archbishop for just that reason. He was shy and considered a moderate, as perhaps, at the start he was.            But conditions in El Salvador in 1977 were wretched and growing more so: wide gaps in income and equality, with a military ready to use extra-judicial means (i.e., “death squads”) to maintain the status quo. Barely three years into his episcopate, Romero had had enough, and the moderate was radicalized. He became the voice of a kind of revolution, although he never embraced the Marxism that had seeped into several currents of Liberation Theology.             In any case, his last, thundering Sunday sermon would lead to his death, and he was martyred the very next day (March 24, 1980) as he said Mass in the chapel of a San Salvador cancer hospital, almost surely the victim of one of the death squads run by Roberto D’Aubuisson, who is assumed to have given the order for the assassination. Click here to read the rest of Mr. Miner’s review . . . SUPPORT

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