Some observers of the Catholic theological scene are saying that a personal meeting between Pope Francis and Dominican Fr. Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez could mark a thaw in decades of frosty relations between the church\u2019s hierarchy and liberation theologians.<\/span> Some observers of the Catholic theological scene are saying that a personal meeting between Pope Francis and Dominican Fr. Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez could mark a thaw in decades of frosty relations between the church\u2019s hierarchy and liberation theologians.Guti\u00e9rrez, a Peruvian, coined the phrase \u201cliberation theology.\u201d The theology is marked by its concern for liberation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
Guti\u00e9rrez, a Peruvian, coined the phrase \u201cliberation theology.\u201d The theology is marked by its concern for liberation of the world\u2019s people from unjust economic or social conditions. It was developed in Latin America during the region\u2019s military dictatorships in the 1960s and \u201970s.<\/span>
The Vatican did not list Francis\u2019 early September meeting with Guti\u00e9rrez among the pope\u2019s official audiences, but a Vatican spokesman confirmed the meeting to\u00a0<\/span>NCR<\/em>, describing it as \u201ca strictly private visit.\u201d<\/span>
L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em>, the Vatican\u2019s semi-official newspaper, published an essay on the event Sept. 3. With the election of the first pope from Latin America, liberation theology can no longer \u201cremain in the shadows to which it has been relegated for some years, at least in Europe,\u201d the essay said.<\/span>
A U.S. theologian with a personal connection to Guti\u00e9rrez agreed that the election of the Argentine pope may have brought a certain openness to liberation theology.<\/span>
According to Michael Lee, associate professor of theology at Fordham University in New York, the reality of the Latin American experience \u201cis present in the person of Francis and in the Vatican now in a way that it never has been before.\u201d<\/span><\/span>
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