Liberation theology’s founder basks in a belated rehabilitation under Pope Francis

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David Gibson

NEW YORK (RNS) It used to be that just saying the words “liberation theology” around Catholics was enough to start a schism-level fight, or at least raise a red flag in Rome.

The theological movement that focused on the poor emerged out of the church’s social justice ferment in the 1960s, but it was always viewed by conservatives as an irredeemably Marxist version of the gospel.

Worse, they said it was a tool of Soviet communists who were using the Roman Catholic Church to foment revolution in Latin America and beyond, and at the very height of the Cold War.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/05/07/liberation-theologys-founder-basks-belated-rehabilitation-pope-francis/