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November 06, 2019

Marco Rubio’s ‘Common Good Capitalism’ is admirable, but it has a few flaws

November 06, 2019

Marco Rubio, the 48-year-old Republican senator from Florida and former presidential candidate, has delivered a major policy address yesterday at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in which he drew heavily on themes from Catholic social thought, to propose answers to the nation’s dividedness and pessimism. We live now in a country, he

Cardinal Pell objected to Vatican hospital loan

November 06, 2019

A 50 million euro loan request to secure the purchase of a bankrupt hospital was vetoed by Cardinal George Pell and financial authorities at the Institute for Works of Religion, commonly called the Vatican Bank, before it was approved by the Holy See’s central bank, APSA, where the loan breached international regulatory agreements. According to

Former vicar general of Rome: Ordaining married men in Amazon a ‘wrong choice’

November 06, 2019

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who served as Vicar General of Rome for 17 years and was a close collaborator of St. John Paul II, has said he hopes Pope Francis will not allow an exception to priestly celibacy in the Amazon region. “In the Amazon, and also in other parts of the world, there is a

Scientists call for ‘gradually reduced’ population to fight climate change

November 06, 2019

A letter warning of a “climate emergency” signed by more than 11,000 scientists calls for a “gradual reduction” in the world’s population. The “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency” was published in the journal BioScience on Tuesday, and was signed by 11,258 scientists from 153 countries. In the statement, the signatories listed both economic

UK government opens consultation on proposed N Ireland abortion law

November 06, 2019

The British government launched Monday a public consultation on a proposed framework for the legal provision of abortion in Northern Ireland. It proposes that elective abortions be available up to 12 or 14 weeks gestation. “With a legal duty now placed on the Government to change the abortion law in Northern Ireland, this consultation focuses

Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/11/19

November 06, 2019

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has hailed the man who threw an Amazon statue into the Tiber as “a hero”. Cardinal George Pell reportedly vetoed a €50 million loan request to secure the purchase of a bankrupt Rome hospital. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has ceased to commemorate Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens in a dispute over