Pope Leo XIV, a believer in liberation theology, a new apostle of the left?

"In the social tradition of Francis, he spent time assiduously in Peru with Gustavo Gutiérrez, the theoretician of liberation theology." This is how Libération described the profile of the new pope, Leo XIV, a few days before his appointment. Should we see in Bergoglio's successor a man influenced by the "red priests," listening to "the cry of the oppressed," whose influence, undermined by radical evangelicals, remains very strong in Latin America, the continent of social inequality? Too early to say, but the sovereign pontiff rubbed shoulders with the man who invented the name liberation theology and wrote the first book on the subject: the Peruvian Gustavo Gutiérrez, nicknamed "the prophet of the poor," who died in October 2024 .