The Liberation Theology Podcast
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A close look at the basic concepts of Latin American liberation theology. Hosted by David Inczauskis, Jesuit deacon.
"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
--St. Alberto Hurtado
August 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"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
--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.
¿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.
August 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
¡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.
¿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
August 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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
David Inczauskis SJ defends liberation theology and philosophy in an interview on Peruvian television: www.youtube.com/live/Kfxam5X...
July 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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."
July 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
July 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A bad tree yields bad fruit.
July 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A week ago, the Liberation Theology Podcast reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads. Thanks for listening, folks!
July 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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).
July 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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
Inscripciones: bit.ly/3ZSvqgr
July 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
Inscripciones: bit.ly/3ZSvqgr
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
July 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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."
Trump: "Blessed are the rich. Woe to the poor."
July 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Jesus: "Blessed are the poor. Woe to the rich."
Trump: "Blessed are the rich. Woe to the poor."
Trump: "Blessed are the rich. Woe to the poor."
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.
July 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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.
June 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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!
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!
June 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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!
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.
From the situation of Latin America, we ask, "Why is there nothing rather than being?"
--Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.
June 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
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!
June 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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
--Enrique Dussel
June 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Liberation is always praxis that constructs something new: prudential rationality, achievable utopia, hopeful negativity."
--Enrique Dussel
--Enrique Dussel
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...
Pathway to Priesthood: Choosing Religious Life with David Inczauskis, SJ
Podcast Episode · AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast · 05/12/2025 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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...
"Liberation Theology in the United States: A Source of Resistance"
www.centreavec.be/animation/la...
May 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Next week in Brussels, Belgium:
"Liberation Theology in the United States: A Source of Resistance"
www.centreavec.be/animation/la...
"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
--Pope Leo XIII, 1891
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"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
--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
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891
May 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"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
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891