Liberation Theology old-timers mourn Francis and reflect on next pope

Liberation Theology old-timers mourn Francis and reflect on next pope

SÃO PAULO – Pope Francis’s death heavily impacted old-timer Liberation theologians, people who on several occasions had to struggle with the Church structure to make their voices be heard and suddenly, many decades later, saw a pontiff embody most of their school’s principles and practices. Despite the deceased pope’s particularities when it comes to his identification with Liberation Theology, the once strong intellectual movement in the Latin …

Did you expect unanimous political and media reactions to the death of Pope Francis? I was not surprised. This political class, very little supernatural, judges the popes with the criteria of the world. It reacts according to a logic consistent with its own categories. Conformism reigns. The pontificate of Francis was read, interpreted, or even greeted through purely political glasses, on a grid of reading that ignores the theological, ecclesial…