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…
ESSAY: SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
In an excerpt from his new book ‘Bending Towards Justice’, NILS VON KALM looks at why social movements with a strong Christian foundation are successful…
Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI made Catholic saints
Martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI are among seven people canonised as saints by Pope Francis on the weekend. Archbishop Romero was gunned down by a death squad while celebrating Mass in 1980 after denouncing military oppression at the start of El Salvador’s civil which ran until 1992 and claimed an estimated […]
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…
SAINTS OF PAST AGES: OSCAR ROMERO
DAVID ADAMS looks at the life and martyrdom of El Salvadorian Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero…