March 24, 2015

"The church preaches your liberation just as we have studied it in just as we have studied it in the holy Bible today. It is a liberation that has, above all else, respect for the dignity of the person, hope for humanity's common good, and the transcendence that looks before all to God and only from God derives its hope and its strength."

- From Romero's last sermon, March 14, 1980

March 24 is the U.N. International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, created in part to recognize the work of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, of El Salvador, who was assasinated on 24 March 1980.