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| Blessed Oscar Romero |
Today is the 100th birthday of Blessed Oscar Romero, born August 15, 1917, in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. The following is from a 1982 article in Commonweal Magazine - "The Political Dimension of Christian Love". Read the whole thing
HERE.
I COME from the smallest country in faraway Latin America. I will not
try to speak, and you cannot expect me to speak, the way an expert in
politics might.
Nor will I even speculate, as someone might who was an expert, on the
theoretical relationship between the faith and politics. No, I am going
to speak simply, as a pastor, as one who, together with his people, has
been learning the beautiful but harsh truth that the Christian faith
does not cut us off from the world but immerses us in it, that the
church is not a fortress set apart from the city but is a follower of
that Jesus who lived, worked, battled, and died in the midst of a city,
in a ''polis.'' It is in this sense that I would like to talk about the
political dimension of the Christian faith: in the precise sense of the
repercussions of the faith for the world and also of the repercussions
that insertion in the world has for the faith.
Read the rest HERE.
- Blessed Oscar Romero
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