On the Side of the Poor Grawemeyer Award Winner Philadelphia

Philadelphia

is Director of Mission for Jesuit Refugee Service/USA and former presi­dent of Georgetown University

and Director of the Institute for Religious Studies and Interfaith Theology

precisely through an ethics of encounter as embraced by Pope Francis

says Wormwood

On the Side of the Poor Grawemeyer Award Winner Philadelphia"In my judgment, the ecclesial and theological movement that began after the Second Vatican Council in Latin America under the name 'liberation theology," . . . is one of the most significant currents of Catholic theology in the 20th century." Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, was viewed with suspicion and even hostility in Rome. In this historic exchange, Father