Decades after his death, Archbishop Oscar Romero will be made a saint

Pope Francis has cleared the way for Archbishop Oscar Romero, an advocate for the poor who was slain in 1980 by right-wing death squads in El Salvador, to become a saint, the Vatican announced Wednesday. The Vatican said Wednesday that Francis considered Romero a model for the Roman Catholic Church and had approved a miracle attributed to the archbishop – a requisite for canonization. It said Francis had also approved a miracle for Pope Paul VI, which means he, too, can be elevated to sainthood. The news comes after years of efforts by church conservatives to block Romero's canonization because they opposed his leftist political views. It was celebrated in El Salvador, where the gulf between

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