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In a candid account of his five decades in the Salvadoran church, the country’s first cardinal tells of calumnies against El Salvador’s St Oscar Romero, but also of slights against him by other prelates, including one bishop who said, in notes to a Vatican ambassador, to not even “think of giving me a diocese.”
He describes his front-row seat to the evening of the “red martyrdom,” the March 24, 1980, assassination of St Romero, his archbishop, and the saint’s “white martyrdom,” a campaign of calumny against the future saint from inside the church. The cardinal’s answers, direct but with serenity, point to never losing hope, nor harbouring resentment no matter what surrounded him: war, ideological attacks, calumny.
“You’re adults. You have your own judgment. Don’t be disabled. Get out from under the skirts of the Church,” the cardinal describes Archbishop Fernando Sáenz Lacalle as saying in one of his first interactions with the press after his 1995 installation as archbishop of San Salvador. From that parish, where he still lives, he said in a Dec 16 interview that he decided to collaborate with Fr Beramendi because of “great worry that I haven’t written anything on my experience as a bishop.” He said he believed his account should be on the record because there is confusion and even attempts at erasing or offering a different version of what happened during an important time in the life of the Catholic Church in El Salvador.
He also tells of finding a note, while reviewing documents ahead of a visit by St John Paul II to El Salvador, in which a Spanish bishop, now dead, tells the nuncio not to assign him as the head of a diocese.
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