The capacity for Latin American liberation theology to be an irri- tant to the official Catholic Church remains undimmed. The pro- posed Congreso Continental de Teologia at Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo in Brazil, to celebrate forty years of liberation theology, will take place from 8th to 11th October 2012 – exactly one year before the Pope is due to come to Brazil for World Youth Day. By this careful chronology, two visions of Church (and how the Church should relate to the modern world) are being brought into explicit counterpoint. An assessment of the overall health of Liberation Theology will no doubt be easier after this event. This article will attempt an interim diagnosis, arguing in the process for a broad compatibility between CST and the Theology of Liberation – not least because they both suffer from the marginalisation of evangelically-directed social dis- course within the contemporary Church.