Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in ...

SÃO PAULO – Pope Francis’s death heavily impacted old-timer Liberation theologians, people who on several occasions had to ...

Francis, who died on Easter Monday, transformed the Catholic Church. He will be a tough act to follow, writes Omar G.

Among social trends anchored in the ’60s, none have been as resourcefully mobilized by Christians as situation ethics (popularized in 1966 by Joseph Fletcher) and liberation theology (articulated at ...

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest known as the father of liberation theology, a movement that reverberated across Latin America and beyond with its emphasis on fighting poverty and ...

In his criticisms of the church and defiance of traditionalists, Pope Francis continued the legacy of a movement the Vatican itself tried to silence. Greg Grandin The following is an excerpt from ...

Comblin became a leading exponent of liberation theology, which advocates activism on behalf of the poor. The movement swept Latin America in the 1960s following the Second Vatican Council.

Although liberation theology has grown into an international and inter-denominational movement, it began as a movement within the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1950s–1960s.

I felt I’d been fairly successful in applying a hermeneutic of child liberation theology. What I hadn’t prepared for was the powerful public reading of the Exodus passage by a second grader—call her ...

Was Latin American liberation theology an invention of the Soviet KGB? So argues Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former intelligence official under Romania’s communist regime, first in an essay published on ...

Pope Francis hails from a region deeply influenced by the progressive movements of Catholic priests and nuns, who were significantly inspired by liberation theology during the 1960s in Latin America.