Pope Francis’ Call for Sustainable, Integral Development

Check out these highlights from this excellent speech by the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, at the Global Responsibility 2030 conference meeting in Germany: Sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges facing the human family. It is no longer sufficient to measure human progress only in terms… Read More Pope Francis’ Call for Sustainable, Integral Development

Pope Encourages Integral Development, Solidarity, and Economic Redistribution by the State

Pope Francis met with a number of representatives from the United Nations today, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Here are some of the key points he made in his address to the UN delegation. Pope Francis explained how future development goals should reflect a commitment to integral development: Future Sustainable Development Goals must therefore… Read More Pope Encourages Integral Development, Solidarity, and Economic Redistribution by the State

Quote of the Day

Ambassador Samantha Power: “A woman in a poor country is still fifteen times more likely to die giving birth than her wealthier counterpart. That is just wrong: for any mother anywhere, a bank account should never spell the difference between death and life.”

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Check out these recent articles from around the web: Subsidiarity and Libertarian “Small Government” by James Baresel, The Distributist Review “Subsidarity is suspicious of centralized big business even more than it is suspicious of centralized big government. Subsidiarity would, in fact, prefer an expansion of government to the expansion of big business.” All Good Things… Read More Around the Web