More from the Archbishop

A year ago today, listening to the Carols from Kings Concert on BBC2 I discovered Archbishop Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador until he was assasinated in 1980. Here is another of his great quotes I love...

‘If we could see that Christ is the needy one, the torture victim, the prisoner,
the murder victim, and in each human figure so shamefully thrown by our
roadsides could see Christ himself cast aside, we would pick him up like a medal
of gold to be kissed lovingly.We would never be ashamed of him. How far people
are today – especially those who torture and kill and value their investments
more than human beings – from realising that all the earth’s millions are good
for nothing, are worthless, compared to a human being.The person is Christ,
and in the person viewed and treated with faith we look on Christ the Lord.’
Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)