Articles: See "El Salvador - Links and Blogs" page.

About the Four Church Women

Alleluia Woman: Sr. Dorothy Kazel by Dorothy Chapon Kazel

"Here I Am, Lord":  the Letters and Writings of Ita Ford by Jeanne Evans and Ita Ford

In the Fullness of Life: a biography of Dorothy Kazel by Cynthia Glavac

Ita Ford: Missionary Martyr by Phyllis Zagano

Jean Donovan and the Call to Discipleship by  John Dear, SJ

Salvador Witness: the Life and Calling of Jean Donovan by Ana Carrigan

The Same Fate as the Poor by Judith M. Noone

The Voice: a Missionary's Call to Give Her Life by Dorothy Chapon Kazel and Sr. Mary Ann Flannery

Witnesses to the Kingdom: the Martyrs of El Salvador and the Crucified Peoples by Jon Sobrino, SJ

About Oscar Romero

Romero: a Life by James R. Brockman

Archbishop Romero: Martyr of Salvador by Plácido Erdozaín

Oscar Romero and the Nonviolent Struggle for Justice by John Dear, SJ

The Violence of Love by Oscar Romero

Voice of the Voiceless: the Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements by Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero and the Communion of Saints: a Biography by Scott Wright

Nonfiction

Salvador by Joan Didion

So Far From God...A Journey to Central America by Patrick Marnham

El Salvador by Larry Towell

Fiction

One Day of Life by Manlio Arqueta

Cilantro, not Coriander by John S. Munday

Poetry

On the Front Line: Guerrilla Poems of El Salvador edited & translated by Claribel Alegría & Darwin J. Flakoll

The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché

Click here to hear Carolyn Forché reading her poem "The Colonel," a poem of El Salvador that Bill Moyers has described as "most quoted in anthologies and most used in classes" among all of Forché's poems.

Click here to read the poem "Magic Realism" by Maggie Jaffe and view photos by John Hoaglund.

Films:

Choices of the Heart (1983)

Romero (1989)

(Click here to watch Romero on Youtube in 10-minute increments.)

Roses in December (1982)

Salvador (1986)

Great Books About Spirituality and Theater:

A Jesuit Off-Broadway by James Martin, SJ

Working on the Inside: the Spiritual Life Through the Eyes of Actors by Retta Blaney

Miscellaneous:

Fordham professor Michael Lee on liberation theology

Website for the 2004 Ohio production of Missionaries

Audio excerpts of Archbishop Romero's most famous speech, given the day before he was assassinated