Catholics in El Salvador are getting ready for the beatification next weekend of the late Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Romero was assassinated in 1980 after speaking out against El Salvador’s military government. His path to sainthood had been blocked for many years because of the Vatican’s concerns about his allegedly leftist politics and liberation theology. Pope Francis declared Romero a martyr earlier this year, which cleared the way for his beatification, the last step before sainthood.