Tag: Pope Francis
How Pope Francis divinized Palestinian suffering: The Gaza Pietà
Although he appealed to international law in this passage, he was pessimistic that war is ever compatible with it.
Pope Francis tells world to speed up transition to renewable energy...
Pope Francis said Earth “may be nearing the breaking point” based on scientific facts and human factors contributing to climate change can no longer be ignored.
While warning of Nazi-like fascism and corporate crimes, Pope Francis proposes...
In remarks at the Vatican, the leader of the Catholic Church condemned "the large-scale delinquency of corporations."
Pope’s senior adviser charged with multiple counts of sexual assault
Numerous victims have come forward in the past few years alleging sexual assault charges against the cardinal.
Pope Francis tells Trump that climate change is real and solidarity...
Trump is a little unlikely to get it. But the point of publicly bestowing on him this gift is that the Pope hopes the rest of us will.
Of budgets and beatitudes: The Pope meets the Donald
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Trump’s apology tour
Trump's version of making up with Muslims apparently involves selling $110 billion worth of arms to the most reactionary Muslim country on the planet.
Pope goes electric, sets example for world leaders
“Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.”
Merry Christmas: Right-wingers, the Red Pope and Jesus
Rationality doesn't seem to be included in the liturgy of right-wingers' political church.
Pope Francis To Employers Who Don’t Offer Health Care: You Are...
He said they "live on the bloodletting of the people they make slaves to work."
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The real evil empire may surprise you
Serving in (or thinking about) the U.S. military for 40 years.
One in ten Americans lives in a sinking city, new study finds
Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure, flood safety, and climate resilience.
Texas voters reject far right school boards in sweeping backlash to book bans
Dozens of candidates who backed book censorship policies lost their seats in school board elections across Texas, signaling public fatigue with partisan attacks on students, educators, and libraries.
Millions would lose Medicaid under GOP cuts, says new CBO report
A nonpartisan analysis shows Republican efforts to slash Medicaid by $880 billion would strip healthcare from millions of low-income Americans in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
GOP advances sweeping plan to fast-track drilling, mining, and logging on public lands
A new Republican bill would open millions of acres of protected land to fossil fuel and timber companies while gutting environmental review processes, in a bid to help fund massive tax cuts.