Muller. Following years of Vatican criticism of liberation theology under John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, these events might seem to indicate a reversal of policy under Pope Francis.

The liberation theology and the option for the poor picked ... headed by Joseph Ratzinger, currently Pope Benedict. The first instruction was negative but the second a bit more positive since ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), the Vatican would closely monitor liberation theology. Boff described how Gutiérrez once had to clarify some of his ideas for Vatican ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable ... societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America in the 1960s.

(AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) Pope Francis delivers his blessing ... born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America in the ...

ROME: Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving ... one of several Catholic societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation ... with an authoritarian style and a dislike of liberation theology, the branch of Catholicism focused on systemic injustice. A period in the ...

Pope Dissolves Peru-Based Conservative Catholic ... societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America in the 1960s.