(Part two  of two)  Truth is important both for the Church and the State covering up violations of human rights.

 concerted efforts by Salvadoran governments to blot out his memory for twenty years straight.—Polycarpio  Blotting out the memory of the sexual cover ups will not work, either.

At the end of a three-day diocesan training session on leadership, when the (Indian in India) Archbishop asks the participants what was needed in civic and Church leadership today, a villager from the mountains, bare foot, leapt up to shout out: "Romero!"—John Prior

Ah, but the cappa magnas are so comfortable.  With Romero, as with Moses, “So the LORD relented to in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people” (Exodus 32:14).