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...sealed gray casket of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero rested on the steps of San Salvador's huge Metropolitan Cathedral, a wreath of red roses at its head. Mexican Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, the personal delegate of Pope John Paul II, had just finished a eulogy, praising Romero as a "beloved, peacemaking man of God" and prophesying that "his blood will give fruit to brotherhood, love and peace." Suddenly, the outdoor funeral service in the center of El Salvador's capital was transformed into a tableau of horror: exploding hand bombs, wild gunfire, terrified crowds stampeding in panic...
...right-wing press regularly vilified Romero for his efforts. In February, 72 sticks of dynamite were discovered in the cathedral moments before he was to celebrate Mass. Last month a right-wing group blew up the Catholic University radio transmitter that carried the archbishop's sermons throughout the country. Undeterred, Romero recorded his homilies on cassette tapes and distributed them to parish priests. "If the defense of human rights is subversive," he often said, "then I am subversive...
...week's end there were still no arrests in connection with the archbishop's assassination. The junta asked Interpol to help find the killer, on the suspicion that he was probably a hired gunman. Said José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democratic Party and a member of the junta: "There is nobody in El Salvador, either on the left or right, who is capable of so efficient a murder. To us, it seems like a contract job." U.S. Ambassador Robert White agreed, adding that a government official had informed him that right-wing Cuban...
Despite 40 leftist bombs that caused extensive damage to businesses in the capital, and a shooting rampage that took the lives of 23 persons in a single day, the archbishop's death did not touch off the uncontrolled conflict that was initially feared. But with tens of thousands expected to attend the funeral, the risk of widespread violence was obviously high, and appeals for calm went out to Romero's supporters. Said Juan Chacon, leader of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc: "The best homage we can pay to Archbishop Romero is neither wreaths nor tears but to act with...
...Ontological Proof. This, the most controversial approach, moves from a mental concept of God to his actual existence. It was originated by Anselm, the 11th century Archbishop of Canterbury who defined God as "a being than which nothing greater can be thought." The Archbishop reasoned that since existence would have to be part of any such perfect and necessary being, this being must actually exist. This is "too good to be true," says one skeptic, and even one of its current defenders admits that it "looks too much like word magic...