A Peruvian priest who founded liberation theology, a movement advocating an active role for the Roman Catholic Church in fighting poverty and injustice but reviled by some as Marxist, has died.

JOHN ALLEN: Liberation theology was a movement in Catholic thought ... say that Archbishop Romero is seen as a great hero and an icon by the progressive, socially involved wing of the Catholic ...

By Bill Friskics-Warren Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, a far-reaching school of thought and action born ...