Priests celebrate Mass for protesters in the middle of a rural street in Honduras in 2017 in an effort to block the passage of equipment for a construction project that would be harmful to the ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino: taught that poverty is not something to be accepted, but a challenge to be overcome, and the structures that bring about poverty are ‘structures of sin’ - Domenico Stinellis ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated since it went to press. Since Archbishop Oscar Romero’s martyrdom in a hospital chapel in San Salvador while saying Mass in 1980, his legacy as a ...

It would be tempting while reflecting on A Theology of Liberation, the 1971 book by the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, to compare it to a couple of musicals from that same year: the Broadway ...

In a rare interview granted to the Argentinean daily “La Nacion,” dissident theologian Father Sergio Torres of Chile, current president of the dissident group “Amerindia,” acknowledged the serious ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the Peruvian Dominican priest considered the ”father” of liberation theology, died Oct. 22 at the age of 96. The Dominican Province of St. John the Baptist of Peru announced ...

SÃO PAULO — When Pope Benedict XVI comes to Brazil this month, he’ll be visiting the country where liberation theology has had its greatest impact. But he’s already well acquainted with liberation ...

(The Conversation) — The influential movement, which is still controversial both inside and outside Catholicism, must be understood in the context of Latin American history. (The Conversation) — It ...

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According to Glenn Beck, President Obama is a “liberation theologist.” What exactly is liberation theology? Strictly defined it’s a movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of ...