Undeterred by Vatican official’s comments, women aspire to diaconate – National Catholic Reporter
“Liberation theology was, and remains, a movement that works from the bottom up, using lived experience as a basis for theological reflection. The lived experience in question is that of the people of Latin America, the overwhelming majority of whom are mired in seemingly insoluble poverty.
“Rather than theology originating in the cloister, it is theology originating in the slum. Poverty is by no means something to be accepted, but a challenge to be overcome, and the structures that bring about poverty are characterised as ‘structures of sin’.
“The essential watchword is that ‘Orthodoxy is orthopraxis’, or, in more accessible terms, that believing the right thing is doing the right thing. This approach was a useful antidote to a Catholic theology that often seemed cut off from the world and the experiences of ordinary people, or worse, which saw the problems of the world as something to be meekly accepted rather than changed.”