By Davide Dionisi
“Old age: our future. The elderly after the pandemic” is the title of a document published on Tuesday by the Pontifical Academy for Life, together with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The document proposes a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from the tragedy caused by the spread of Covid-19, on its consequences for today and for the near future of our societies.
The pandemic has produced a twofold awareness “on the one hand, the interdependence of everyone, and on the other greater attention to inequalities. We are all in the same storm, but it is increasingly evident that we are on different boats, and that the least seaworthy boats are sinking every day. It is essential to rethink the whole planet’s development model,” reads the document.
Pope Francis on Monday joined survivors of human trafficking, religious sisters and cardinals in a day of prayer against modern day slavery, calling for a “courageous economy” with market rules that promote justice and bans human trafficking.
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A new pastoral guidebook offers up some practical steps for Catholics to work with other Christians and communities of faith to better protect the environment and bring
Laudato Si to life.
The interreligious-focused care for our common home guidebook, released Monday, provides a roadmap for pastors, parishes and dioceses to ingrain Pope Francis encyclical,
Laudato Si , on Care for Our Common Home, into their liturgies and the life of their church.
Its 56 pages provide an extensive compendium of prayers, liturgy suggestions, methods and topics for ecumenical or interreligious dialogue, and theological underpinnings of why caring for God s creation is a primary responsibility for all Catholics.
A grounded pope spent 2020 trying to clean house on Vatican finances
Dec 23, 2020 senior correspondent
With no international trips this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the prolonged immobility provided Pope Francis some much-needed time to focus on cleaning out his own backyard, perhaps most notably when it comes to money.
ROME – Known as a globe-trotting pope who conducts the bulk of his diplomacy through words and gestures during trips, Pope Francis found himself with extra time on his hands this past year with international travel brought to a halt by the coronavirus pandemic.
The pontiff was slated to visit Malta, East Timor, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, and probably would have gone to other places too as the year went on. Instead, he found himself constrained to remain in Rome – and that prolonged immobility provided him some much-needed time to focus on cleaning out his own backyard, perhaps most notably when it comes to money.