sentences:  When a fellow Jesuit, Rutilio Grande was murdered by government forces in 1977 while returning to his parish church in Aguilares, Archbishop Óscar Romero (who was himself assassinated in 1980) appointed Cortina to succeed him as the pastor of the village.In this role, Cortina continued to be an outspoken critic of the government's repression of the rural population.Cortina continued to serve on the faculty of the university, where he kept his primary residence.