Mar 24, Independent Catholic News
El Paso, Texas – The protective figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, looms large above the fear-filled west Texas city of El Paso these days. And well she should.
The massive mosaic of the Mother of God stands four stories tall, attached to a soon-to-be opened affordable housing bloc named ‘Nuestra Senora’ (Our Lady), just five minutes from the international border with Mexico.
A stone’s throw away is the imposing red-brick structure of the El Paso’s St Patrick’s Cathedral. It’s early morning, the third Sunday of Lent and less than 24 hours until the Feast Day of Saint Oscar Romero, the slain Archbishop of San Salvador who, for his staunch defence of human rights and the dignity of the poor, was martyred by an assassin’s bullet while saying Mass on March 24, 1980.
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