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.
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The Dominican Order in Peru announced on social media that the Catholic priest died Tuesday night at a convent in Lima, the South American country’s capital. It did not give a cause of death.Gutiérrez’s liberation theology put the poor as its priority and exerted great influence on doctrine and the history of the church in Latin America.
Gutiérrez, who himself was never disciplined, told reporters in 2015 that liberation theology as a whole was never condemned, but he acknowledged that the Holy See had engaged in “very critical dialogue” with its proponents and that there were “difficult moments.” “I think in this moment, the climate surrounding this theology is different. That is true,” Gutiérrez told reporters at the time.
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