Romero Days 2010
March 24-29

Wednesday, March 24

12:30pm

"Civil and Human Rights and the Diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala"

Lecture by Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of Guatemala

Eck Hall of Law, Room 1130

5:15pm

Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart

With special guests Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini and the Reverend Monsignor Carlos Quintana Puente

Thursday, March 25

12:30pm

"The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy"

Lecture by Ana Carrigan, Journalist, Author, and Cinematographer based on her book El Palacio de Justicia: Una Tragedia Colombiana (Icono, 2009)

Hesburgh Center Auditorium

5:30pm

VIP Reception & Dinner benefitting the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House
For more information contact Therese Hanlon at 574-631-4150 or therese.hanlon@nd.edu

8:00pm

US Premiere MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero)

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Browning Cinema

Friday, March 26

12:30pm

FTT Talks - MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Oscar Romero) - A discussion with the film's creative team

CANCELED

Monday, March 29

6:45pm

Screening MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero)

Post-screening discussion with Timothy Matovina, Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame.

Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune Student Center

MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero)

On March 24, 1980, Monseñor Óscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was killed by a professional hit man as he stood at the altar celebrating a memorial Mass for a friend. His assassination became the catalyst for a civil war that lasted for twelve years and cost more than 75,000, mostly civilian, lives. This film tells the story of the last three years of his life.

The narrative spine of MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero) develops through Romero’s own words, in extracts from his Sunday homilies and from his personal diary, in which each night he recorded the events of the day and his own thoughts and reflections. The story of El Salvador as the war approaches is told through the experiences of a cross section of Salvadorans: campesinos, guerrillas, soldiers, politicians, priests, nuns, catechists—providing a chorus of voices of people who shared with Romero the tragic history of their country. As this history evolves, so too will the reasons for Romero’s murder. 

There have been several films about Monseñor Romero; this one is different in several respects: 
It is the first film about Romero that goes beyond the classic genre of a filmed biography, to explore and probe the contemporary significance and legacy of his life and tragic death.
It is the first film about Romero to place the Latin American campesinos at the center of the story: it was they who inspired Romero to find his mission; it was because of the relationship
he developed with them that he was killed.

Towards the end of his life, when his conviction and courage were leading him irrevocably to a “death foretold,” Romero had transcended his own small country. In the telling of this story, the film will connect Romero’s life and death to the larger story of the cycles of poverty, rural abandon, and despair that—beyond the borders of El Salvador—are today’s reality across Latin America and beyond.

The Creative Team

THEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT

Rev. Robert Pelton, csc

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Ana Carrigan
Francisco Vargas

PRODUCER

Emanuele Pasquale

DIRECTED BY

Ana Carrigan
Juliet Weber

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY & INTERVIEWS

Everardo Gonzalez

EDITED BY

Juliet Weber
Joaquin Perez

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Fabricio Villegas

WRITTEN BY

Ana Carrigan

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Eugene Palumbo

NARRATION

Eliud Porras

RESEARCHER

Margarita Herrera

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

Rodolfo Santa María

Romero Days Cosponsors

Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC)
Bishop Shaheen Leadership Fund
the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
the Center for Civil and Human Rights
the Center for Social Concerns
the Department of Theology
the Institute for Church Life
the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Campus Ministry
the Institute for Latino Studies
the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre—FTT Talks