Romero letters

07 April 2017

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ORBIS BOOKS has published The Church Cannot Remain Silent: Unpublished letters and other writings by Oscar Romero (distributed by Alban Books, £16.99 (£15.30); 978-1-62698-175-1). An Archbishop of San Salvador widely regarded as prophetic, he was silenced by his assassination in 1980, but beatified in 2015. The translators are Gene Palumbo and Dinah Livingstone. The book includes his last homily, and others’ commentary on the material.

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