“Hurricane Katrina: Why Does God Allow Disaster?”
Read this August 30, 2005, article by Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
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“Angels and demons in a city of sin”
Read this column by Terry Mattingly published on September 1, 2005, on GetReligion.org.
“Did God Send the Hurricane?”
Read this September 2005 Beliefnet.com article detailing apocalyptic theories about what Hurricane Katrina could have meant for society.
“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.
“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.