Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was gunned down by a right-wing death squad in 1980 at the start of the country's civil war, will be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint, the ...

Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who will be canonized and declared a Catholic saint on Oct. 14, was gunned down while giving Mass in a San Salvador church on March 24, 1980. AP file.

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.

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 ...

Pope Francis and the Vatican have recognized Romero, who served as archbishop of San Salvador, as a martyr. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on his life, and the possibility he might become a saint.

A woman holds a rosary with the image of the slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero inside the religious library of the Divine Providence chapel, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Wednesday, March 7, ...

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.

Pope Francis has named Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a saint. Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.-backed right-wing death squad in 1980 at the ...

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.

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.Romero, who implored the country’s ...