South Sudan’s late liberation hero Garang in focus during Pope’s visit
Juba, South Sudan Reuters Pope Francis will lead prayers at the mausoleum of South Sudanese liberation hero John Garang on Saturday, an acknowledgement of the importance for the world’s youngest nation of perhaps the one leader who could ensure unity. Garang was killed in a helicopter crash in July, 2005, less than a month after […]
Essay: After 50 years, ‘liberation theology’ is still reshaping Catholicism and politics – but what is it?
LEO GUARDADO, an assistant professor of theology at Fordham University, explains – in an article published on The Conversation – at what liberation theology is and the role it’s played in Catholic thought in Latin America…
Racial justice: Why a Catholic journalist is urging the church to engage Black Lives Matter
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on Catholic journalist Olga Marina Segura’s call – contained in her new book – for greater engagement of the US Catholic Church with the Black Lives Matter movement…
Progressive United Methodists announce new denomination: Liberation Methodist Connexion
RNS A group of progressive United Methodists announced on Sunday they are forming a new Methodist denomination, the Liberation Methodist Connexion, or LMX. For half a century, the United Methodist Church has debated the full inclusion of its LGBTQ members. It pushed any discussion of sexuality from its quadrennial General Conference meeting in 2016 to a […]
Brazil: How progressive theologians hope to re-establish dialogue with the Christian right
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA reports on hopes among proponents of Liberation Theology that dialogue can be re-established with neo-Pentecostal churches, many of whom are key supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro…
ESSAY: ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO WAS GUNNED DOWN INSIDE HIS OWN CHURCH 38 YEARS AGO. HE’LL SOON BECOME EL SALVADOR’S FIRST SAINT
US academic MICHAEL E LEE, in an article first published on The Conversation, reflects on the history of the controversy surrounding the Catholic Church’s upcoming canonisation of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero…
THEOLOGY: CAN A CONTROVERSIAL LATIN AMERICAN MOVEMENT SPEAK TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY?
G JEFFERY MACDONALD, of Religion News Service, reports from the US…