Liberation theology is a Christian movement that arose in late 20th-century Roman Catholicism and was centered in Latin America. It calls for changes in social and economic institutions to promote social justice. It was controversial in some quarters of the church because of its associations with Marxist principles and was curbed by Pope John Paul II in the 1990s.
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