“The pope’s mixed legacy with Latino Catholics”
Read a February 15, 2013, article on CNN about how many Latino Catholics regard Pope Benedict XVI’s legacy on liberation theology.
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“Is liberation theology about to make a comeback with the next pope?”
Read a February 12, 2013, article in Left Foor Forward speculating about whether Pope Benedict XVI’s successor will embrace liberation theology.
CIA World Factbook: Religion – Catholicism and Vatican City
The CIA World Factbook contains data on Roman Catholic population percentages across the globe, as well as information about Vatican City.
“A Concise History of Liberation Theology”
Read this excerpt from the preface of Introducing Liberation Theology (Orbis Books, 1987) by Leonardo and Clodovis Boff.
“Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation”
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.
“Peru’s Catholics Brace for Fissures in Their Church”
Read this article published in The New York Times on May 8, 2005, two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI’s Papal Inauguration Mass.
Leonard Norman Primiano
Leonard Norman Primiano is Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa. He contributed a chapter on the supernatural on television in God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture, edited by Eric Mazur (Routledge, 2000). A recent publication is “I Wanna Do Bad Things With You: Fantasia on Themes of American […]
William Dinges
William Dinges is a professor of religious studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and an expert on American Catholicism. He says the growing divide between what is “religious” and what is “spiritual” has resulted in spirituality that lends itself easily to supernatural and paranormal phenomena. He is a co-author of Young Adult Catholics: […]