Priests celebrate Mass for protesters in the middle of a rural street in Honduras in 2017 in an effort to block the passage of equipment for a construction project that would be harmful to the ...

It would be tempting while reflecting on A Theology of Liberation, the 1971 book by the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, to compare it to a couple of musicals from that same year: the Broadway ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(RNS) — While liberation theology has been criticized for a view of oppression that is too simplistic, young Latin American theologians say Gutiérrez opened the doors for new movements in Catholic ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Members of Catholic movements in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, were delighted when Cláudio Hum mes, the new archbishop of São Paulo, agreed to preside last month at the ...

LIMA, Peru — The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian theologian and father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. (CNS/Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore) Though his landmark book, A Theology of Liberation, came from an era of military dictatorships and guerrilla rebels, ...

Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, who died Oct. 22, was only 37-years-old when he attended the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. This experience became a pivotal moment for him and ...

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Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the Peruvian Dominican priest considered the ”father” of liberation theology, died Oct. 22 at the age of 96. The Dominican Province of St. John the Baptist of Peru announced ...