Oscar Romero: Closer To Heaven

The Salvadorean archbishop Óscar Romero was beatified on Saturday, the final step before sainthood, 35 years after he was shot dead at the altar by a rightwing death squad for denouncing the oppression of the poor by the military dictatorship.

Roman Catholics from around the world mixed with former Marxist rebels from El Salvador’s brutal civil war as more than 250,000 people gathered in the capital to celebrate the country priest who confronted a US-backed government.

Cardinal Angelo Amato, sent by Pope Francis, officiated the ceremony that followed decades of debate over whether Romero had rejected Church doctrine by embracing radical, leftwing rebels...

The Guardian.

It's what he wouldn't have wanted etc...

Not Pope: Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero was the Archbishop of El Salvador.
When a right-wing military junta took power in 1979 he spoke out about disappearances, assassinations, state terror, torture, political repression, and poverty.
"Help the poor," he said.
He urged President Carter to end military aid to the junta. 
Of course, he didn't.
On March 23rd 1980 he called on soldiers to disobey orders that went against "God's higher order".
The following day, while celebrating mass in a hospital, he was assassinated.
Maybe this is the real lesson of Christianity?
Good men tend to get crucified.
If you're a cunt they'll make you Pope.