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Article: Liberation theology lives on.
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- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Article date:
- November 15, 2007
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In February 2007 at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI presided over the Ash Wednesday mass, which is, for Catholics, a solemn occasion marking the beginning of the 40-day season of Lent. During the liturgy, a distinguished few worshipers out of hundreds in attendance were invited to approach Benedict in the basilica's sanctuary, and receive ashes from the pontiff himself. Among them was a short, Peruvian friar of the Dominican Order, dressed in the Order's characteristic white and black habit. This friar was Father Gustavo Gutierrez, who in 1971 authored the seminal book The Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation, which both coined the ...