Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian priest and 'father of liberation theology', dies at 96

Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian priest and 'father of liberation theology', dies at 96

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the influential Peruvian priest known as “the father of liberation theology” and hailed as a “prophet of the poor,” has died in Lima at the age of 96. Gutiérrez, a theologian and Dominican friar, was a famous – and sometimes controversial – defender of the idea that the church needed to stand on … Read more