We look this week at a "speaker-of-truth-to-power" of the modern era, whose assassination in March 1980 was a chilling replay of the 12th century martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Like the medieval “meddlesome priest," Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador, set himself on a collision course with El Salvador’s right-wing military junta by issuing calls in weekly radio sermons for social justice, economic equality, and an end to a campaign of terror that was pushing the country towards civil war. Romero had just finished preaching at the altar of a hospital chapel, when an unknown assassin gunned him down. He was declared a saint in October 2018. We see Romero being welcomed by Christ and the Virgin Mary into heaven's holy family in this wood panel painting by New Mexico Artist Marie Romero Cash. In folk art pieces made with natural pigments and local wood, she keeps alive the traditions of the Hispanic "saint-makers," who once crafted simply-styled holy images for outlying communities in what is now the American Southwest, when religious artifacts from Mexico were in short supply. (John Kohan)