Editor's Note: This article has been updated since it went to press. Since Archbishop Oscar Romero’s martyrdom in a hospital chapel in San Salvador while saying Mass in 1980, his legacy as a ...

(RNS) — In churches all across the world, partway through the service, half the congregation is asked to leave the sanctuary. While the head pastor leads those in the pews in an in-depth exegetical ...

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Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. (CNS/Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore) This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication in English of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation.

Once considered revolutionary, his notion of empathy and advocacy for the poor has become a central tenet of Catholic social teaching. By Bill Friskics-Warren Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest ...

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 ...