Editing Óscar Romero (section)

===Popular radio sermons===
[[File:O.Romero 1979 autographed photo.jpg|thumb|left|Romero in 1979.]]

By the time of his death, Romero had gained an enormous following among Salvadorans. He did this largely through broadcasting his weekly sermons across El Salvador<ref name="Peadar Kirby 1980">Peadar Kirby, 'A Thoroughgoing Reformer', 26 March 1980, ''The Irish Times''</ref> on the church's station, YSAX, "except when it was bombed off the air."<ref name="diary" /> In these sermons, he listed disappearances, tortures, murders, and much more each Sunday.<ref name="Peadar Kirby 1980"/> This was followed by an hour-long speech on the radio the following day. On the importance of these broadcasts, one writer noted that "the archbishop's Sunday sermon was the main source in El Salvador about what was happening. It was estimated to have the largest listenership of any programme in the country."<ref name="Peadar Kirby 1980"/> According to listener surveys, 73% of the rural population and 47% of the urban listened regularly.<ref name="diary">{{cite web|url=http://www.romerotrust.org.uk/index.php?nuc=content&id=60|title=A Shepherd's Diary, Foreword.|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308030706/http://www.romerotrust.org.uk/index.php?nuc=content&id=60|archive-date=8 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Similarly, his diocesan weekly paper ''Orientación'' carried lists of cases of torture and repression every week.<ref name="Peadar Kirby 1980"/>