“In Latin America, Jesuits have had significant influence in the development of liberation theology, which has been controversial with Catholic theologians.”
Controversial? It’s godless Marxism wrapped up in a Christian sounding veneer. Its what Jeremiah Wright espouses @ Trinity. Its Obama’s version of ‘Christianity’.
http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ratzinger/liberationtheol.htm
“In Latin America, Jesuits have had significant influence in the development of liberation theology, which has been controversial with Catholic theologians.”
The Jesuits, indeed, were at the center of Liberation Theology in Latin America.
My recollection is that this caused the Pope at the time (~1970’s) to remove the Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Father Pedro Arrupe, and also to direct the Jesuits to correct their error and re-align their teachings about Social Justice (Social Justice means something very different in the context of Catholic theology than is does to the secular leftists).
I was subsequently told by a Jesuit theologian that I know that the Society of Jesus themselves asked the Pope to take these actions against Arrupe and the Liberation Theology proponents within their order.