News From Barbaria: Pope Francis Reflects On The Life Of Peruvian Padre Gustavo Gutierrez, The Founder Of Liberation Theology

Alan Archibald

Padre Gustavo Gutierrez was a great man.

Even while leading a "parallel" life in worldwide philosophical/theological circles, he always staid grounded in his Peruvian poor peoples' parish.

His parishioners had no idea who Padre Gutierrez was out "in the big world": he was simply their beloved "curate" (a wonderful word for "priest," particularly a parish priest, deriving from the word "cure.")

Padre Gutierriez was the people's healer.

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Pope Francis bids farewell to Father Gustavo Gutiérrez: 'a great man, a man of the church'

The pontiff's message, which was recorded amid the final days of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, was posted on the YouTube channel of the Archdioceses of Lima Oct. 24. Francis said Gutiérrez was a man who "knew how to stay silent when he needed to be silent, who knew how to suffer when he had to s

Alan Archibald

Padre Gutierrez studied medicine with an eye to becoming a psychiatrist. During this early adulthood he became interested in the groundbreaking historical and intellectual work of Karl Marx.

Padre Gutierrez' Wikipedia page is well worth reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Guti%C3%A9rrez