In one of his many rousing speeches during the 1940s, Colombian politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, who fought for the rights of "the people" against the oligarchies, proclaimed, "¡El pueblo unido jamás ...

Reflecting on more than 80 years of life in his 2022 book Thoughts and Dreams of an Old Theologian, Leonardo Boff summed up many of his theological and personal concerns in a clarion call for change. ...

There is every indication that Pope Leo XIV could follow Pope Francis’ embrace of liberation theology, a politically tinged movement that emerged in the 1970s and championed the liberation from social ...

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 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 ...

Kendrick Lamar at an event for The 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. (IMDB) I am not sure if it was hip-hop or a curiosity for religious questions that first prompted my interest in human rights and ...

In 1984, in the heat of the Cold War, leading neoconservative theologian and American Enterprise Institute fellow Michael Novak took to the pages of the New York Times Sunday Magazine to denounce the ...

Until recently, little had been written on reconciliation from a liberationist perspective, in part due to a reluctance to engage a concept that has often been co-opted by those in power to justify ...

The Dominicans indicated that Father Gutiérrez’s remains would lie in state at the Santo Domingo convent in Lima’s historic center. Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez Merino, O.P., who is regarded as the father of ...

It isn’t often that theology makes headlines. But for the past 50 years, a way of thinking about God and poverty has been doing just that: liberation theology. Fifty years have passed since the ...