Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago theology professor, has written about black theology of liberation and also about gun control. Black liberation theology, he says, is aligning more closely with black churches and developing partnerships with liberation theologians in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific Islands.

Fernando Segovia, professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., has written about the challenge and promise of Latino spirituality. He co-edited A Dream Unfinished: Theological Reflections on America from the Margins (Orbis Books, 2001).  

Read a February 15, 2013, article on CNN about how many Latino Catholics regard Pope Benedict XVI’s legacy on liberation theology.

Read a February 12, 2013, article in Left Foor Forward speculating about whether Pope Benedict XVI’s successor will embrace liberation theology.

Read this excerpt from the preface of Introducing Liberation Theology (Orbis Books, 1987) by Leonardo and Clodovis Boff.

Read the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1984 document, “Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation,” signed by Cardinal Ratzinger.

Read this article published in The New York Times on May 8, 2005, two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI’s Papal Inauguration Mass.

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