Óscar 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 María Pineda, R.S.M


2. Óscar Romero, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Social Teaching by Michael E. Lee


3. “Like a Thorn in Our Sleeping Flesh” On Óscar Romero’s Shifting Reading of Catholic Social Teaching by Matthew Philipp Whelan


4. Monseñor 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 Colón-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: Óscar 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: Óscar Romero’s Imagination of Peace by Kevin F. Burke, S.J.


10. Monseñor Romero's Quest for Peace: A Journey of Dialogue and Mediation on the Brink of War by José Henríquez Leiva


11. The Witness of Incarnational Solidarity: Óscar Romero and Living out Gaudium et Spes by Meghan Clark


12. Un Pueblo Solidario: The Solidarity of the Poor with the Poor in Óscar Romero’s Theology of the People of God by Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo


13. Rethinking Radical Nonviolence: Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Racism by Rubén Rosario Rodríguez


14. A Liturgical Decolonial Turn? Romero’s Mirroring of Catholic Social Teaching through Word, Sacrament, and Re-Existence by Peter Casarella