Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman prays in front of a statue of the martyred Catholic archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, known for his embrace of ...

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some ...

Moving forward always requires rigorous internal criticism of ourselves and the traditions we love. This applies not only to liberal Christians who congratulate themselves for not being like those ...

Forty synod fathers met Sunday to celebrate Mass in the same catacombs in Rome and to sign a new pact advancing some of the same principles. Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the synod’s relator ...

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 ...

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. The theological movement that focused on ...

Jesuit Fr. Martin Maier participates in a workshop on liberation theology in April at Missionshaus St. Gabriel, the Divine Word Missionaries' center in Austria, near Vienna. (Christian Tauchner, SVD) ...

Liberation theology is alive and well in Belem, Brazil. Where? Did you say Davos, Switzerland, where 2,500 economic movers and shakers recently concluded their annual meeting of World Economic Forum ...

VATICAN CITY — Six months after becoming the first Latin American pontiff, Pope Francis invited an octogenarian priest from Peru for a chat at his Vatican residence. News of the September 2013 meeting ...

Pope Francis has an odd sense of timing. Last week he led the Vatican in embracing climate change orthodoxy just as it is becoming weaker than ever. But the real eyebrow raiser is the upcoming Vatican ...

Few contemporary theological movements have generated as much controversy as liberation theology. Likewise, few theological movements have been as misunderstood or misrepresented by both critics and ...

Liberation theology was a radical movement that grew up in South America. It said said the church should act to bring about social change, and should ally itself with the working class to do so. The ...