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African bishop slams ‘outdated, biased’ global finance system
Crux Now
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July 3, 2025
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Nigerian Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto says the global financial system is outdated and failing people,” particularly in Africa. The bishop’s comments to Crux came in the wake of the Jubilee Report published recently by...
‘The Exorcist’ and the Devil
Word on Fire - Washington D.C.
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July 11, 2025
“What are the Church’s greatest needs at the present time? Don’t be surprised at our answer and don’t write it off as simplistic or even superstitious: one of the Church’s greatest needs is to be defended against the evil we call the Devil.” —...
First lady Emine Erdoğan pushes for global justice in Vatican visit
Sabah
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July 3, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan delivered a passionate plea for global justice and solidarity during her keynote speech at the “Brotherhood-Based Economy: Ethical Multilateralism” conference at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences....
Liberation Theology Combines Religion with Radical Politics
In These Times - Illinois
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July 3, 2025
lib•er•a•tion the•ol•o•gy How’s it different from other theology? While broader Catholic theology is concerned with helping the poor, it tends to focus on spiritual growth and understanding Church doctrine. Liberation theology, meanwhile, tends to...
First Lady urges stronger Gaza support in Vatican meeting
Hurriyet Daily News
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VATICAN CITY First Lady Emine Erdoğan on Wednesday met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Erdoğan, who is at the Vatican to speak at the event Fraternal Economy Session on Ethical Multilateralism hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences,...
At the Vatican, experts challenge the rules of global debt and finance
Religion News Service
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July 2, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Some of the most provocative recent proposals challenging global inequality and international debt are not the work of Ivy League economics departments or Silicon Valley think tanks. They’re coming from inside the Vatican. “I...
Resetting development finance
Bangkok Post
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July 2, 2025
At the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development this week in Seville, delegates are calling for urgent action to fix a system that has stopped working. Prior to the third such gathering a decade ago, in Ethiopia, we had...
The curious case of Father Freddy, a former South Side pastor accused of child sex abuse
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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July 11, 2025
Is the Rev. Freddy Washington a child molester or not? The Catholic priest is part of a religious order known as the Spiritans, and once ministered on the South Side and attended the same Catholic graduate school in Hyde Park as Pope Leo XIV....
Experts call for increased climate finance to power locally led adaptation initiatives
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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Dr Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO of CIFOR-ICRAF. Photo by CIFOR-ICRAF Despite its minimal contribution to global emissions, Africa faces some of the most severe consequences of climate change. They include rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, intense...
Commentary: Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science. “These developments...
Vatican-backed report seeks financial reform to avert decades of lost development
WKZO - Michigan
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June 20, 2025
By Libby George LONDON(Reuters) -A commission launched by the late Pope Francis has outlined financial reforms it says could help to avert decades of lost development in poor countries that face onerous repayments as global public debts reach...
Latin Mass debate grows after apparent leak of Vatican liturgy report
America Magazine
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July 2, 2025
ROME (AP) — The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way, with the apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine the stated reason of his...
Vengeful ‘Popess’ framed me in Vatican fraud trial, says cardinal
The Times
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A senior Catholic cardinal convicted of embezzlement by the Vatican for his role in a disastrous London property investment has claimed a woman with a grudge may have tried to frame him. Cardinal Angelo Becciu claims he could have been illegally...
Emine Erdoğan meets Pope Leo XIV on Gaza, climate, family in Vatican
Sabah
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July 2, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan met with Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Wednesday, July 2, where the two leaders held a wide-ranging discussion on global humanitarian concerns, interfaith cooperation and the importance of...
Vatican publishes the note ‘Jubilee 2025: remission of the ecological debt’
Zenit
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June 28, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.27.2025).- The thematic note ‘Jubilee 2025: remission of the ecological debt’, signed by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, was published on Tuesday 23 June and can be downloaded in 5 languages....
Cardinals from Global South deliver urgent climate appeal at Vatican
Religion News Service
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July 1, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Warning of “irreversible impacts” if the world stays on its current course, three influential cardinals from the Global South presented a document at the Vatican on Tuesday (July 1) calling for bold international action on...
How a Belarusian Blogger and Journalist Discovered the Facts of Catholicism
National Catholic Register
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Asya Poplavskaya encountered Christ in the course of her career. Belarus has significantly lower wages compared to Western European countries. Most people can’t afford traveling or dining out at restaurants. But Asya Poplavskaya was an exception....
Facing 153 sexual abuse cases, the Fresno Diocese seeks bankruptcy. Critics call it delay tactic
Los Angeles Times
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July 1, 2025
Bogged down by 153 claims of clergy sex abuse, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno announced Tuesday it voluntarily filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The financial reorganization process comes more than a year after the diocese declared...
Business Leaders Called To Align Tech Decisions With Corporate Values
Forbes
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Signs point to an emerging, if informal, social contact on AI deployment.AFP via Getty Images With the rapid rollout of AI, corporate leaders are increasingly being called to consider the proper alignment between technology strategies and...
Vatican Museums unveils restored Raphael Rooms after a decade of meticulous restoration
KRCG - Missouri
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways rival the Sistine Chapel as the peak of...