The Argentine church received a message with the call Pope Francis made to Javier Milei: ”Lay off this guy” and “contribute to social peace.”
Economics
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
How money works in the Gospel—and what that teaches us about Jesus
When we have asked the Father for the bread that will keep us alive for one more day, he tells us to pray as follows: Cancel my debts, forgive my failure to do what I promised, my inability to do what I ought to do, just as I have canceled the debts of those who owed me money and could not pay.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As the U.A.W. strike expands, Catholics are asking: Where’s the modern-day labor priest?
Where’s the modern-day Catholic labor priest?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What Catholic institutions should take (and leave) from the D.E.I. movement
The kind of diversity sought after at a hospital, an engineering firm or a Catholic university should differ according to the gifts necessary for the mission of such institutions.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Activists are calling it Hot Labor Summer. Catholics should welcome it.
Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Latest Vatican financial scandal involves former monastery that housed Jews during WWII
At least $17 million has been transferred from the Vatican’s U.S.-based missionary fundraising coffers into an impact investing vehicle run by a priest, the former head of the U.S. organization.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic charity leaders alarmed by Republican efforts to tie debt ceiling debate to work requirements
Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse revealed the moral hazards of our banking system
Why do banking crises keep happening? When depositors are protected, some banks cannot resist making risky loans. And paying fines for doing so has become a usual cost of doing business.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: The Vatican’s mega-trial of the century—and the cardinal at the center of it
On this week’s episode of Inside the Vatican, Ricardo and Gerry discuss the most recent happenings in the Vatican’s mega-trial of the century with the Vatican bank.