Cardinal Peter Turkson
The annual Romero Lecture commemorates the anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
Archbishop Romero was assassinated by a right-wing death squad while presiding at Mass on March 24, 1980. His outspoken advocacy of human rights, his denunciations of U.S. military aid to El Salvador, and his insistence that the Church be inseparable from the poor all made him a figure of some controversy before and after his death.
Archbishop Romero has been officially recommended for canonization by the Catholic Church in El Salvador, and he is already widely venerated as a martyr throughout Latin America and in the United States.
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns, and the Latin American North American Church Concerns