A Peruvian priest who founded liberation theology, a movement advocating an active role for the Roman Catholic Church in fighting poverty and injustice but reviled by some as Marxist, has died.

When Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, succeeded the former Cardinal Ratzinger, the subject of liberation theology, thought by some to be a spent force, came to the fore once more ...

His eventual successor, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI, later described liberation theology as a “fundamental threat to the faith of the church.” Father Gutiérrez ...

The book offered the foundation for liberation theology, a current that took ... the Vatican’s doctrinal department, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would succeed him as Pope Benedict ...

As controversies over liberation theology built in the 1980s, it was inevitable that Gutiérrez would become a target. In 1983, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI ...

SÃO PAULO (RNS) — The death of the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, called the “father of liberation theology,” at age 96 on Oct. 22 has set off a reconsideration of the theological and pastoral ...

Castillo also claimed the SCV was involved in attempts to discredit the Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican and Father of Liberation ... his theology raised by Cardinal Ratzinger, then ...

“Liberation theology was a positive thing in Latin America. The Vatican condemned the part that opted for Marxist analysis of reality. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [the later Pope Benedict XVI ...