From the outside, it’s hard to imagine why anyone in El Salvador wouldn’t be overjoyed on Saturday when the late Archbishop Oscar Romero becomes the country’s first-ever native son to reach beatification, the final stage before sainthood in the Catholic Church.
Romero, after all, is one of the most iconic figures in contemporary Catholicism, a Church leader who gave his life to defend the poor and the oppressed in the most dramatic fashion possible.
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