Recalling Liberation Theology

With its link between protecting the Earth and helping the poor, Pope Francis’s encyclical recalls the era of the liberation theology movement in the Catholic Church. It was a controversial effort begun in Latin America in the 1960s-1980s to side with the poor and oppressed over the rich and the powerful and to promote social justice and transformation. Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro spoke with some of the aging veterans of Nicaragua’s liberation theology struggles of a generation ago.

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I disagree with Fr. It is in Poland that Second Vatican Council was correctly implemented.

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Interesting & Cleverly Done Review Of A Much Misunderstood & Maligned Spiritual Thesis...