This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac sit down with Dean Detloff, a research and advocacy officer at Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, to talk about the importance of foreign debt relief in the Jubilee Year. Ashley, Zac and Dean discuss: In Signs of the Times, Ashley and Zac discuss Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, […]
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Defense in Vatican ‘trial of the century’ asks prosecutor to recuse himself for questionable conduct
Messages show Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi has a personal interest in the outcome that should preclude him from heading the prosecution, the defense lawyers said.
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The ICE raid on a Hyundai plant shows how hard it would be to quit globalization
An ICE raid will delay the construction of a plant in Georgia that could provide Americans with high-paying jobs.
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In Trump’s America, the federal debt forecast is looking dire
As with a leaky roof, it is better to pay for repair work sooner, reducing debt, rather than letting the roof collapse and ending up with much higher costs.
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How Trump’s tariffs are threatening this Irish Christian art workshop
Trump’s tariffs hit an unlikely target—handmade Irish Christian art—and echo an ancient struggle over the sacred across borders.
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The global impact of Pope Francis: From migration to taxes to A.I. weapons
The pope’s attention to migration and climate change were well known, but the pope was also attentive to a number of other global issues and challenges like nuclear disarmament, tax justice, development, and the rise of autonomous (A.I.) weapons systems.
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Trump’s trade war misses the point: Americans do not save enough
The root cause of the chronic U.S. trade imbalance is macroeconomic: We save too little relative to our major trading partners. Tariffs will not address that problem.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Pope Francis, Trump, jubilee and debt forgiveness
An interview on economics and Catholic social teaching with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and a professor at Columbia University.
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Europe was a world leader in A.I. regulation. Will Trump change that?
E.U. regulations on artificial intelligence may not be global in scope, but they affect 450 million consumers and companies will have to implement E.U. rules and adopt them for other territories for cost-saving reasons.
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What Catholic social teaching says about Trump’s tariffs
Economist and Jesuit priest Stephen Pitts, S.J., weighs in on President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.