Church leaders preach peace in Nicaragua as they face threats from Ortega regime
- Jun 23, 2021
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Bologna’s Lercaro pointed to a papacy 50 years before its time
- Aug 21, 2020
In a sense, Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna could have been Pope Francis a half-century before the fact, since he was a serious candidate to be pope in the 1962 conclave, reportedly drawing around 20 votes at his peak, before giving way to St. Paul VI instead.
Brazilian bishop famous for clashes with John Paul II dies at 92
- Aug 11, 2020
Bishop Pere Casaldáliga, born in Spain in 1928, died on Saturday in Brazil, at the age of 92.
Leonardo Boff in twitter war on liberation theology with Brazilian foreign minister
- Jan 14, 2020
In a harsh exchange of tweets with Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff on Jan. 1, Brazil’s foreign minister Ernesto Araújo accused Liberation Theology of being responsible for the decline in the number of Catholics in Brazil.
German Catholics praise Father Johann Metz, theologian, dead at 91
- Dec 7, 2019
German-speaking Catholics paid tribute to Father Johann Baptist Metz, the veteran theologian who died Dec. 2 in Munster, Germany, at age 91.
Pope’s late teacher says his concept of ‘People’ just doesn’t work in English
- Nov 29, 2019
Often translated into “the people of God,” the word pueblo in Spanish has a different meaning, one for which there is no direct equivalent in English.
On Catholicism, Key West, and taking comfort in the present
- Nov 10, 2019
One way the Catholic instinct seeps through in Key West is a tendency among locals to compare the present state of the place unfavorably to a half-remembered, half-imagined past.
Facing pollution, fire and exploitation, Amazonians wonder ‘if the world hates us’
- Sep 19, 2019
“It’s as if the world hates us,” Daniela Andrade said Monday, trying to explain the bewilderment and anger people often feel over blatant pollution and related health issues generated by the oil and mining industries, coupled with grinding poverty and chronic governmental neglect.
Pope reflects on changed attitudes toward liberation theology
- Feb 14, 2019
Time, experience and reflection have “purified” liberation theology and its attempts to make clear what the Gospel says about social injustice, Pope Francis said.
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