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