An open letter to the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (known by the Spanish acronym CELAM) released in ...

"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul." ...

It’s clear that there was nothing Marxist about Pope Francis, and that his theology was far removed from the Marxist form of liberation theology. His intellectual, spiritual, and political formation ...

On its own, the phrase “liberation theology” is unobjectionable, but it is the church’s “first and foremost” duty to liberate people from “the radical slavery of sin.” Not from poverty.

" This pope will change the church," the Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff told DW at the time. And Francis, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio, did indeed change the church.

A CTVC production for BBC World Service. (Photo: Leonardo Boff preaching outside a church to followers of Liberation Theology. Credit: Bernard Bisson/Sygma/Getty Images) ...

Leonardo Boff turns 83 on December 14, so it seems to be a good time to reflect again on the life and work of the Brazilian theologian. He entered the Franciscan order in 1959 and was ordained in ...

The poor are oppressed, and all oppression cries for liberation,” said Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian theologian and a prominent proponent of liberation theology himself, who called Gutiérrez “a ...

A number of priests committed to liberation theology were defrocked or forced out of the Catholic congregation including, in 1985, Leonardo Boff in Brazil and Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann in Nicaragua.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, a founder of liberation theology, dies at 96 As a Catholic priest in Peru, he championed a new approach to theology emphasizing help for the poor and downtrodden.

Born in Concórdia, Brazil, in 1938, Boff entered the Franciscans in 1959 and was ordained in 1964. He earned a doctorate in philosophy and theology from the University of Munich in 1970.