An open letter to the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (known by the Spanish acronym CELAM) released in ...

"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul." ...

Liberation theology grew out of the misbegotten “Christian-Marxist dialogue” of the 1960s and 1970s, which must seem as quaint and laughable as promoting Esperanto.

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.

Liberation theology will likely always have its critics, but its supporters continue to build on the legacy of the past 50 years wherever they see poverty, injustice and oppression.

”For many,” he added, ”liberation theology is a good expression, but we have no association of theologians guarding the orthodoxy” of the ever-broadening movement, which incorporates some ...

Liberation theology, Goizueta explained, is rooted in early Latin American theology, though it was not explicitly articulated until the mid-twentieth century. According to Goizueta, Vatican II and ...

The release of Stollar’s book is the latest example of how child liberation theology is gradually making inroads in select seminaries, intergenerational churches and parenting groups.Indirectly ...

What’s Wrong With Liberation Theology. It occurs to me that I should probably be doing something else right now other than blogging (a class syllabus doesn’t write itself), ...

"Liberation theology, from the first line of the book until the last line, is against Marxism," Gutierrez said Wednesday at an event in his honor at Fordham University's Manhattan campus.

Liberation theology proved highly controversial within the Catholic Church, angering traditionalists who accused Father Gutiérrez and his allies of interpreting the Gospels through a Marxist lens.

It used to be that just saying the words “liberation theology” around Catholics was enough to start a schism-level fight, or at least raise a red flag in Rome.