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Pope asks business leaders to take a risk on using money for good
Money is not morally neutral -- it is used either for good or for evil, Pope Francis told Catholic business owners.
Pope, Iraqi-born Catholicos pray for an end to unjustifiable violence
Terrible violence that "no reason can justify or allow" continues to "wash over hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women and men," he told Catholicos Gewargis III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
Becoming cardinal is call to share mercy, cardinal-designate says
Being created a cardinal in the Year of Mercy brings with it an obligation to continue to proclaim and share God's mercy with others, said Cardinal-designate Joseph W. Tobin.
Power struggle in Syria is ‘workshop of cruelty,’ pope says
"I believe the greatest illness of today is cardiac sclerosis," he said Nov. 17, implying a kind of hardening of the heart that renders a person unable to feel compassion or be moved by another's suffering.
University of Montreal to change faculty of theology into institute
The university said that this new configuration, which will take effect May 1, will give academic support and administrative resources to the faculty to allow it to "deploy its full potential."
South Korean Catholics seek president’s resignation over scandal
The church in South Korea has been vocal in its calls for Park to resign after news broke that her friend, Choi Soon-sil, allegedly manipulated the president to gain access to secret documents and purportedly embezzle funds through nonprofit foundations.
Admonish sin without putting on airs or being hypocrite, pope says
Pope Francis reflected on two verses in the Gospel of St. Luke (6:41-42) in which Jesus warns against the hypocrisy of noticing "the splinter in your brother's eye," but not perceiving "the wooden beam in your own."
Protecting planet is ethical, moral obligation, pope says
The vulnerability of the poor and of future generations to the impact of climate change creates a "serious ethical and moral responsibility to act without delay" to slow climate change and protect the environment, Pope Francis said.
Program helps Guatemalans fight child malnutrition with gardens, hygiene
Over half of Guatemala's children under that age of 5 are chronically malnourished. In ethnically Mayan areas like this impoverished mountainous region of Totonicapan, more than 70 percent of children suffer from chronic malnutrition.
Papal persistence, followed by red hat, highlight importance of laity
Cardinal-designate Kevin J. Farrell is the papal pick to lead a new super-dicastery bringing laity, family and life together under one roof.