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A Freirean Imprint on Liberation Theology

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With plumes of white smoke spiraling out of the small chimney atop the famous Sistine Chapel in the early evening of March 13, 2013, the electricity of excitement was radiating off the thousands of onlookers who were gathered at St. Peter’s Square. The white smoke signaled the 266th pope had been elected. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, the first pope from the Americas, would take the name Francis.

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Kirylo, J.D., Boyd, D. (2017). A Freirean Imprint on Liberation Theology. In: Paulo Freire. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-056-1_8

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