economy

Pope Francis' message for Lent 2020

In message for Lent, Pope hits out at “idolatry” of “unbridled thirst for profit”, appeals for “more just and inclusive” economy

Catholic Archbishop of Athens Greece is determined to break the shackles of the economic and financial crisis

Catholic Archbishop of Athens: “Greece is determined to break the shackles of the economic and financial crisis”

German bishop Gregor Maria Hanke (Eichstätt) decries - 'We live with our prosperity at the expense of less developed countries'

German bishop decries: “We live with our prosperity at the expense of less developed countries”

EU Bishops of COMECE urge Brussels to 'policy coherence'

EU Bishops of COMECE urge Brussels to “policy coherence” on trade, development, climate, human rights

Pope pleads for economy based on 'inclusion, care for our Common Home and integral human development'

Pope pleads for economy based on “inclusion, care for our Common Home and integral human development”

Pope agitates for global economic reform with leading world economists and finance ministers

Pope agitates for global economic reform: “A rich world can and must put an end to poverty”

Home-precarious in Barcelona

Barcelona cardinal laments plight of half-million home-precarious, one-in-four in social exclusion

Human rights abuses of multinationals

Catholic development org calls on EU to curb “serious abuses” of multinationals on human rights, environment

Pope Francis February 2 in the Angelus prayer

Pope issues plea to protect human life from technology and economy, “open doors to new forms of solidary fraternity”

Priest Robert Sirico launches his anti-Francis economy book in Madrid

Anti-Francis lobby ramps up attack on Pope’s economic vision with pro-free market book launch in Madrid

Penha Longa in Portugal, site of an ultraconservative rival to Pope Francis' Assisi conference on the economy

110 bishops conspire in “secret” ultraconservative rival to Francis economy conference

Cardinal Peter Turkson, in Davos

Vatican cardinal’s impassioned plea to Davos: “The Earth and the poor are crying”

World Economic Forum in Davos

Davos plunders Bible for lessons on winning back trust in capitalism, globalisation

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at a Wednesday General Audience

Pope demands Davos put person, not power or profit, at centre of public policy

Pope Francis hugs a young child

Thousands of young people to meet in Assisi to realise Pope’s dream of a “new economy on a human scale”

A sign at a Stop ISDS protest

French Catholic development org denounces “à la carte justice” for transnationals

Energy poverty (stock)

Cardinal sounds alarm for 20,000 “energy poor” in Barcelona

Pope Francis embraces a sick child in a Roman hospital

Urging healthcare for all, Pope presses hospitals, governments “not to neglect social justice for financial concerns”

Pope Francis blesses a child December 11 in the Wednesday General Audience

Pope pleads on World Day of Peace for a “more just economic system”

Pope Francis embraces a man

Welcome and mercy, touchstones of the Pope’s 2019

COMECE event on 'Tax justice and poverty'

EU Bishops: “Taxes should be the steering wheel of the economy towards ecological and social justice”

Turin Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia with a Roma family

Turin archbishop decries “profit of few and loneliness of many” prevail in globalised world

Francis receives December 19 the credentials of a new ambassador to the Holy See

Pope enjoins politicians, industry to “responsible stewardship of the Earth”

Interior of the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica

Professor, real estate insider take down conservative Catholic “Dan Brown” reporting on Vatican financial “scandals”

Arms trade

German Church aid orgs rail against rising revenues of arms manufacturers

New EU Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen

Bishops welcome EU ‘Green Deal’, push Brussels harder for “real ecological conversion”

Indigenous men of the Amazon

Justice and Peace Europe calls on EU to “protect and promote” rights of indigenous

Pope Francis

Pope calls for “concrete commitment” to combat “cancer” of corruption

New Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy Juan Antonio Guerrero

Pope’s new economy czar spotted in American-led Vatican business management seminar

Consumerism and Black Friday

Barcelona cardinal decries “madness”, “exaggerated consumerism” of Black Friday