Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian theologian widely regarded as the father of Liberation Theology, passed away Tuesday, leaving behind mixed legacy of faith, social justice, and Marxism.
Pope Francis met with a group of Marxists in the Vatican and exhorted them not to let up in their pursuit of dialogue with Christians.
Former liberation theologian Friar Clodovis Boff has blamed Liberation Theology for the sharp decline of Catholic belief and practice in his native Brazil.
Left-wing Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff said Wednesday that for the past nine years Pope Francis “has been receiving furious attacks from traditionalist Christians and white supremacists, almost all from the North of the world, the U.S. and Europe.”
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is “gravely concerned about the latest developments and escalating tensions threatening the peace and security of the people of Ukraine,” declared WCC Acting General Secretary Rev. Ioan Sauca in a statement this week.
Pope Francis said Monday that poverty is not a natural condition of human beings but always a consequence of the selfishness of others.
Pope Francis asserted in a message released by the Vatican Thursday that poverty is not the natural condition of man but is always the fruit of someone else’s sin.
ROME– Pope Francis has sent a birthday letter to Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian founder of Liberation Theology, thanking him for his “theological service” to the Church and humanity.
Pope Francis praised his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI over the weekend, saying that his teaching continues to live on in the Church as a precious treasure.
In a controversial interview, Pope Francis has publicly defended Liberation Theology, calling it a “positive thing” in Latin America.
Brian Burch of CatholicVote says faithful Catholic voters and leaders deserve to know the truth about Hillary Clinton’s running mate, and how the time he spent in Honduras – which he has referenced as a “turning point in my life” – helped to shape both his political and religious views.
The leader of the black pastors organization that was born during the Civil Rights Movement led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. says the radical Black Lives Matter movement has failed to educate its members about the “real” Civil Rights Movement and is spewing a “twisted view of Christianity.”
At an address delivered at AFL-CIO headquarters, the archbishop of Washington, D.C. announced that organized labor is recognized by the Catholic Church as one of the “instruments of solidarity and justice,” and that such solidarity should not be taken for granted or denied.
Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga lambasted “movements in the United States” that have expressed criticism of the Pope’s upcoming encyclical letter on the environment, calling it “absurd” to disparage a document that has not yet been released.
In a startling new interview, a 3-star general and former head of Communist Romania’s secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, claims that the Theology of Liberation was the creation of the KGB, who exported it to Latin America as a way of introducing Marxism into the continent.
The Latin Times calls newly declared Catholic martyr Oscar Arnulfo Romero a “Marxist Martyr” because of supposed ties to a Marxist-inspired movement called liberation theology that was popular in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s.
