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Vatican Rebukes Leading Salvadoran Dissident Priest

HeadlineMar 15, 2007

The Vatican has rebuked one of El Salvador’s leading dissident priests over writings advocating liberation theology. Reverend Jon Sobrino has played a key role in El Salvador’s political struggles. He escaped death in 1989 in the well-known murders of six Jesuit priests, along with their cook and her daughter, at the hands of U.S.-backed Salvadoran troops.

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