Pope Francis Just Showed He’s Not Afraid to Part With the American Right

Time ^ | Feb. 4, 2015 | Christopher J. Hale

[Gamecock]

On Tuesday, Pope Francis declared that Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero was martyred “in hatred of the faith” and not killed for simply political reasons. Francis’s decision came nearly 35 years after Romero was assassinated by a right-wing death squad while celebrating Mass on March 24, 1980. His announcement opens the door for Romero’s beatification, the final stop on the road to sainthood in the Catholic Church.

But the decision is not without controversy. Though the Vatican formally began the process to canonize Romero in 1997, it was blocked for years as Rome navigated a wider debate across the United States and global Catholic community about whether Romero was killed for defending the faith or for taking strong political stances against the Salvadorean government.

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That’s like saying Joseph Stalin wasn’t afraid to part with the American right.

[Tanniker Smith]

I wouldn't expect him to. Then again, if one gets past abortion and sex, the Democrat Party and the Catholic Church have a lot of common interests and goals, which is why for so long so many Catholics have voted Democrat.

The problem is that Democrats will never get past abortion and sex and will continue to bow down at those twin altars. And that will eventually be their downfall.