A Peruvian priest who founded liberation theology, a movement advocating an active role for the Roman Catholic Church in ...

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. Father ...

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest known as the father of liberation theology, a movement that reverberated across Latin America and beyond with its emphasis on fighting poverty and ...

Though opposed by many within the Church itself, liberation theology still had a lasting effect on Catholic life as well as a profound influence well beyond the confines of Roman Catholicism.

Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutierrez, regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, has died aged 96. He passed away on Tuesday night in Lima, said the Dominican Order of Peru ...

Peruvian Theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Father of Influential Liberation Theology, Has Died LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social ...

Gutiérrez, who died Oct. 22 at the age of 96, was an icon of 20 th century Latin American Catholicism, and for decades, reactions for or against Gutiérrez’s pioneering theology marked the primary ...