Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino: taught that poverty is not something to be accepted, but a challenge to be overcome, and the structures that bring about poverty are ‘structures of sin’ - Domenico Stinellis ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez speaks during a press conference at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev ...

SÃO PAULO (RNS) — The death of the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, called the “father of liberation theology,” at age 96 on Oct. 22 has set off a reconsideration of the theological and pastoral movement ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. (CNS/Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore) Though his landmark book, A Theology of Liberation, came from an era of military dictatorships and guerrilla rebels, ...

Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez speaks during a press conference at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died ...

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 ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, a far-reaching school of thought and action born of solidarity with poor and ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A towering figure in the Catholic theological landscape of the past century, the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, known as the father of liberation theology, died Tuesday night (Oct. 22) ...