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 ...

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 ...

How the Peruvian priest influenced the fathers of integral mission. Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, the father of liberation theology and Catholic theologian who first argued for a “preferential option for ...

(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 ...

Many of the key concerns explored in theologies of reconciliation have been central to Latin American liberation theology since its inception.... - Published on August 15, 2025 Until recently, little ...

While broader Catholic theology is concerned with helping the poor, it tends to focus on spiritual growth and understanding Church doctrine. Liberation theology, meanwhile, tends to take a more ...

Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez in front of Corby Hall.(Credit: University of Notre Dame.) Listen ROME – In February 2014, a scene unfolded in Rome that struck many observers as akin to the end of history. A ...

In his criticisms of the church and defiance of traditionalists, Pope Francis continued the legacy of a movement the Vatican itself tried to silence. Pope Francis (C) greets Bolivian native children ...

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 ...

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 ...