Oscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching

Todd Walatka is a teaching professor in theology and faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Von Balthasar and the Option for the Poor.

Part 1. Romero in Context 1. Romero: A Man in Search of God and Truth by Ana Maria Pineda, R.S.M 2. Oscar Romero, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Social Teaching by Michael E. Lee 3. "Like a Thorn in Our Sleeping Flesh" On Oscar Romero's Shifting Reading of Catholic Social Teaching by Matthew Philipp Whelan 4. Monsenor Romero and the Social Doctrine of the Church by Jon Sobrino Part 2. Romero and Catholic Social Teaching 5. Romero and the Preferential Option for the Poor: An Ecumenical Praxis by Edgardo Colon-Emeric 6. Faces of the Salvadoran Christ: Archbishop Romero's Praxis of Human Dignity in the Flesh by David M. Lantigua 7. Occupying the Cathedral of the Poor: Oscar Romero, the Grammar of Occupations, and the Protection of the Persecuted by Leo Guardado 8. Romero on the Common Good and Economic Justice by Stephen J. Pope 9. An Energy Field More Intense than War: Oscar Romero's Imagination of Peace by Kevin F. Burke, S.J. 10. Monsenor Romero's Quest for Peace: A Journey of Dialogue and Mediation on the Brink of War by Jose Henriquez Leiva 11. The Witness of Incarnational Solidarity: Oscar Romero and Living out Gaudium et Spes by Meghan Clark 12. Un Pueblo Solidario: The Solidarity of the Poor with the Poor in Oscar Romero's Theology of the People of God by Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo 13. Rethinking Radical Nonviolence: Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Racism by Ruben Rosario Rodriguez 14. A Liturgical Decolonial Turn? Romero's Mirroring of Catholic Social Teaching through Word, Sacrament, and Re-Existence by Peter Casarella

"Oscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching is a timely and much needed contribution to the field. The scholars who contribute bring insight not only on Catholic social teaching and tradition in the life of Oscar Romero, but also contribute more widely to discussions associated with theologies of liberation, the preferential option for the poor, human dignity, economic justice, the poor, protest, peace, dialogue, violence and radical nonviolence, war, solidarity, racism, and decolonialism."-Sharon E. Heaney, author of Engaging Latino/a/x Theologies