Read an April 24, 2013, Religion News Service story about reports that Francis “unblocked” Oscar Romero’s cause for canonization.

Read an April 25, 2013, Sightings column by Joshua Connor, a doctoral candidate in religious ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Read an Associated Press story, posted April 28, 2013, by The Huffington Post, about the hopes liberation theologians in Latin America have for Pope Francis.

Watch a May 10, 2013, Catholic News Service video in which the Rev. Alejandro Crosthwaite, a Dominican priest, discusses the relationship between Bergoglio and liberation theology in Argentina.

Read a May 20, 2013, America magazine review of a new book, God’s Reign & the End of Empires, that addresses theology from a “liberationist” perspective.

Ivan Petrella is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. Petrella is a citizen of Argentina and spends much of the year there. His academic credentials include a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and his books include The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto; Beyond Liberation […]

Phillip Berryman is an affiliated faculty member in the Latin American studies program at Temple University in Philadelphia. His books include Liberation Theology: Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America — and Beyond (February 2013).

Michael E. Lee is associate professor of theology at the Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York. He teaches a course in liberation theologies and discussed his views on the subject in the March 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic.

Thia Cooper is associate professor of religion at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., and the author of Controversies in Political Theology: Development or Liberation?