Drinan / Romero

Virtually unnoticed by the US press, that massacre prompted the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to act, leading the first of 17 congressional fact-finding missions to the region.

That first mission included a Jesuit priest, Robert Drinan, who was also a member of Congress from Massachusetts. Romero and Drinan celebrated Mass together in the unfinished cathedral, where Oscar Romero's decision to halt construction had recently angered the powerful of El Salvador.

"Only when peace and justice are established and the hungry are fed, then we can resume building our cathedral," the archbishop explained.

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Photo: The Rev. Robert Drinan (left) and Archbishop Oscar Romero (center) during Mass in El Salvador in 1978. (UUSC Archive)