Tag: Pope Francis
Why cash payments aren’t always the best tool to help poor...
Heath Henderson, Drake University
The concept is simple and seductive: Give people cash, lift them out of poverty. It’s...
Pope’s upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians...
Ramazan Kılınç, University of Nebraska Omaha
Pope Francis will arrive in Iraq on Friday in a first-ever papal visit...
What is charismatic Catholicism?
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
Amy Coney Barrett reportedly will be Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme...
No justice, no peace: Why Catholic priests are kneeling with George...
Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida
Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other priests in a...
Catholic Church urges Venezuela to unite against coronavirus
David Smilde, Tulane University and Hugo Pérez Hernáiz, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Coronavirus hasn’t yet hit Venezuela as hard as neighboring Brazil and Colombia. But...
The Catholic Church is tightening rules on reporting sexual abuse –...
Christine P. Bartholomew, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Pope Francis recently changed the Catholic Church law, making it mandatory for clergy...
Researching clergy sex abuse can take a heavy emotional toll: 3...
Kalpana Jain, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look back at the stories that...
Why it’s so hard to hold priests accountable for sex abuse
Carolyn M. Warner, Arizona State University
A grand jury report recently found shocking levels of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. It uncovered, in...
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What can we learn from other countries’ health systems?
By Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute
Health systems in all wealthier countries face similar problems, but their solutions are widely different. That should mean we can...
