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Quotable
Gutiérrez, now 87, in an undated photo. Photograph: Maryknoll Mission Archives
“Poverty is the result of human causes, reasons. We have made poverty. For a long time, in humanity, in the Church, outside of the Church, poverty was a fact. Right? A destiny. It’s not true. Poverty is not a destiny. It’s an injustice. . . . And justice is a central point in the Bible—a central point. First Testament and Second Testament, justice is always there.”
— Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, the Peruvian whose early 1970s writings on the poor are considered foundational to liberation theology, from a talk at Boston College on November 16, sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center. On that day, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, presented Gutiérrez with the President’s Medal for Excellence.
