The Liberation Theology Podcast

"Some sympathize with the poor. Others lament their suffering. But who will consecrate their body and soul to attack the root causes of their oppression?"
--St. Alberto Hurtado

¡Noche de formación sobre la teología de la liberación en El Agustino, Lima, Perú!

¿Qué es la teología de la liberación?

Es una interpretación
de la obra de Dios en la historia
en alianza con los oprimidos
con el objetivo de crear una sociedad sin dominación.

What Matters to God? Homily on Luke 12:13-21 for August 2-3, 2025

Happy Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola from Santa María de Nieva, Amazonas, Perú! Here is my first St. Ignatius Day homily as a priest, given at the Jesuit parish in the Peruvian Amazon.
--David Inczauskis, SJ

David Inczauskis SJ defends liberation theology and philosophy in an interview on Peruvian television: www.youtube.com/live/Kfxam5X...

A woman at the parish: "There are not many priests who are willing to speak about social justice and about the poor anymore. I often think of leaving the Church, but then there are a few priests who remain firm in 'the school of the poor' and give me a reason to stay."

A bad tree yields bad fruit.

#Superman

A week ago, the Liberation Theology Podcast reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads. Thanks for listening, folks!

The Trump administration would do well to listen to the late Pope Francis, who wrote in "Fratelli tutti" (2020) that "each country also belongs to the foreigner, inasmuch as a territory’s goods must not be denied to a needy person coming from elsewhere" (para. 124).

Limeños, los invito a estas próximas conferencias sobre la teología y la filosofía de la liberación que tengo el placer de ofrecer en colaboración con la Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Nos vemos pronto.

Inscripciones: bit.ly/3ZSvqgr

If Jesus had a message to the USA, it might be, "Repent and believe in the Gospel of the Reign of God."

Let us put our trust not in riches, honor, and pride but in Jesus Christ who comes to bring good news to the poor, liberation to the oppressed, and freedom to captives. 2/2

The USA has played a liberating role in history in a few ways, but, to many throughout the world, the USA is synonymous with imperialism, colonization, racism, capitalist exploitation, weapons production, pollution, waste, nationalism, and stupidity--among others. 1/2

Jesus: "Blessed are the poor. Woe to the rich."
Trump: "Blessed are the rich. Woe to the poor."

Education can enslave. Education can liberate. We must ask, "For what are we being educated?"

Education doesn't free people from poverty. Equalizing the relations of production, advancing the means of production & producing basic necessities frees people from poverty. Education only liberates to the extent it contributes to such equalization, advancement & production.

Saints Peter and Paul were executed in Rome because the proclamation of the Reign of God is incompatible with the cult of empire.

Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Jesus, you who see the struggle of the poor and pour out your life for the liberation of all creation, make my heart like yours!

Heidegger asks, "Why is there being rather than nothing?"
From the situation of Latin America, we ask, "Why is there nothing rather than being?"
--Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.

Would that God raise up for our time prophets like St. John the Baptist who tell soldiers to stop oppressing, the rich to share their wealth, and religious leaders to abandon their shallow hypocrisy. And John did so not to draw attention to himself but to God and God's justice!

"Liberation is always praxis that constructs something new: prudential rationality, achievable utopia, hopeful negativity."
--Enrique Dussel

Pathway to Priesthood: Choosing Religious Life with David Inczauskis, SJ Podcast Episode · AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast · 05/12/2025 · 30m

David Inczauskis SJ shares about his call to the Jesuit priesthood as well as some stories that led him towards liberation theology in a recent podcast episode with AMDG: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Next week in Brussels, Belgium:

"Liberation Theology in the United States: A Source of Resistance"

www.centreavec.be/animation/la...

"Is it just that the fruit of a person's own sweat and labor should be possessed and enjoyed by any one else? As effects follow their cause, so is it just and right that the results of labor should belong to those who have bestowed their labor."
--Pope Leo XIII, 1891

"A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891

"Patristic Sources of Latin American Liberation Theology" is available! academia.edu/resource/wor...

Happy to announce the publication of "Patristic Sources of Latin American Liberation Theology" with the Cahiers Internationaux de Théologie Pratique. The study is available in both English and French: academia.edu/resource/wor...