Oscar Romero (1917 - 1980)
It would be worthless to have an economic liberation
in which all the poor had their own house,
Their own money,
but were all sinners,
their hearts estranged from God.
What good would it be?
There are, nations at present
that are economically and socially quite advanced,
for example those of northern Europe,
and yet how much vice and excess!
The church will always have its word to say:
conversion.
Progress will not be completed
even if we organize ideally the economy
and the political and social orders of our people.
It won't be entire with that.
That will be the basis, so that it can be completed
by what the church pursues and proclaims:
God adored by all,
Christ acknowledged as only Savior,
deep joy of spirit
in being at peace with God
and with our brothers and sisters
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