Major LiberationTheologian Leonardo Boff Criticizes Pope Francis’ Recent Statement on Female Priesthood

“ Former Franciscan friar Leonardo Boff, one of the main ideologues of Liberation Theology and who in recent years has supported and congratulated the changes promoted by Pope Francis in the Church, criticized Friday the rejection of the female priesthood.

'We have supported almost everything that Pope Francis has written and taught, but at this point I allow myself to distance myself critically since this is also the job of reasoned theology,' said the Brazilian theologian and philosopher in a long article that he published on his Internet page.”