Pope John Paul II, traveling to Latin America earlier this month, told journalists that liberation theology had retreated after the collapse of communism and was no longer seen as a problem. He said, "Liberation theology was somewhat a Marxist ideology. Today, following the fall of communism, liberation that has fallen a little, too."

Catholic News Service reported that this "was an unusually bland dismissal, coming from a pontiff who for years fought what he saw as liberation theology's Marxist bent." is liberation theology dead?

Brazilian Leonardo Boff, who ...

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