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While watching the movie, Romero, you look into to the lives
of the lives of the Salvadorian people, and learn all they went
though in order to gain freedom. Oscar Romero went though a lot
to stand up for his church, and be there when he people needed
him the most.
Oscar Romero was nominated to take the job as Arch Bishop,
because the other bishops saw him as a quiet man who kept to
himself, and his books. They wanted someone who would stay
conservative and not start anything. He started off receiving
many gifts from the richer people, and went to their parties, but
as time went on he started to think more as if what they were
doing was right. When his good friend Padre Grande was killed
after giving the sacrament of baptism, Romero knew something had
to change.
Romero was then faced with a younger lady whose husband had
been taken as a political prisoner. She asked for his help and
he did everything he could to. He went to the president elect
who denied anything about political prisoners. The husband was
found later dead. Romero was faced with many of these abductions
of young kids, girls being raped and killed, and families being
torn apart. He met with each family, listening to each story and
receiving a picture of the missing people.
At one point in the story the church had been taken over,
Romero and...
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