Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — Liberation Theology

In the chronology

2 events in the chronology involve this figure.

Year	Date	Event
2025	2025-05-08	Election of Leo XIV — After the death of Francis (21 April 2025), Robert Prevost — for decades a bishop and missionary in Peru — is elected; liberation theologians' expressions of hope, and debate about his stance, are attributed to the sources reporting them.^[1]
2025	2025-10-04	Leo XIV's 'Dilexi te' — The first apostolic exhortation of Leo XIV, on love for the poor, begun under Francis — read by some commentators as continuity with liberationist emphases, a reading others dispute; both attributed.^{[2] [1]}