U.S. church aid to seminary helps continue work of slain Salvadoran rector
Jan 17, 2021 catholic news service
This undated photo shows Father Ricardo Cortez, the slain rector of St. Oscar Romero Seminary in Santiago de Maria, El Salvador. Cortez was assassinated Aug. 6, 2020, and his murder remains unsolved. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy of St. Oscar Romero Seminary.)
Just weeks before his killing, Father Ricardo Cortez had written to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops requesting economic help for his beloved seminary, damaged by tropical storms that barreled through Central America in 2020 and struggling from the economic effects of COVID-19.
SANTIAGO DE MARIA, El Salvador He slept surrounded by philosophy.
U.S. church aid to seminary helps continue work of slain Salvadoran rector
Father Ricardo Cortez was assassinated Aug. 6, 2020, and his murder remains unsolved
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He slept surrounded by philosophy and was assassinated Truths, certainties, Father Ricardo Cortez wrote in a diagram of the metaphysical description of the concept of a person with definitions that he, as the rector of the St. Oscar Romero Seminary, had sketched in Spanish and Italian.
In another diagram posted near his bed, he sketched God in relation to humanity, along with a stick figure of a crucified Jesus, explaining common dimensions of those who believe in God.