Asian nations nuclear stance threatens global peace Asian nuclear powers are using nuclear weapons to foster nationalism, expansionist ambitions and disputed territorial claims
Pope Francis attends a meeting for peace at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 24, 2019. (Photo by EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON/MaxPPP)
When the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) arrived this year, four of the five nations that have not become a party to it were in Asia.
Some 190 nations are party to the NPT but India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan have yet to sign the treaty along with South Sudan. Religions, all of them standing for peace, play a major role in pushing these Asian nations to proliferate nuclear weapons.
Pope’s deep-pocket friends may explain sangfroid about money woes
Pope Francis meets the Council for Inclusive Capitalism in November 2019. (Credit: Vatican Media.)
Does anyone seriously believe that the pope’s new corporate BFFs, with $10.5 trillion in assets at their disposal, couldn’t help cover a $60 million deficit in a pinch?
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ROME – Sometimes when two apparently unrelated stories happen at the same time, the intersection offers a reminder that neither development can truly be understood without the other. Such has been the case in recent days with regard to the fairly bleak situation facing Vatican finances.
On Tuesday, the Vatican’s Council for the Economy held an online meeting to discuss not only the 2020 deficit, which is expected to be more than $60 million, in part due to coronavirus-related shortfalls but also the looming crisis in unfunded pension obligations. That conversation came just a few days after a new partnership was announced calle
Vatican City, Nov 24, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis hailed Argentina’s healthcare workers as the “unsung heroes” of the coronavirus pandemic in a video message released Friday.
In the video, posted on the YouTube account of the Argentine bishops’ conference Nov. 20, the pope expressed his appreciation of doctors and nurses in his homeland.
He said: “You are the unsung heroes of this pandemic. How many of you have given your lives to be close to the sick! Thanks for the closeness, thanks for the tenderness, thanks for the professionalism with which you take care of the sick.”
The pope recorded the message ahead of Argentina’s Nursing Day on Nov. 21 and Doctors’ Day on Dec. 3. His words were introduced by Bishop Alberto Bochatey, auxiliary bishop of La Plata and president of the Argentine bishops’ health commission, who described them as “a surprise.”
December 15, 2020
CWN Editor s Note: “The crisis invites us to replan our journeys, to build new models,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. “That is what the Holy Father invites us to with his call towards an ecological conversion.”
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Until September, the School of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago was known by another name. That month, the board approved a plan to elevate it from an institute into a full academic school, the first of its kind within the global Jesuit university network. (NCR photo/Brian Roewe)
Loyola University Chicago boosted its commitment to addressing environmental and climate change issues with the unveiling Dec. 14 of its new School of Environmental Sustainability.
The school, Loyola s 11th, upgrades the status of its seven-year-old Institute for Environmental Sustainability, which already was one of only a handful of such programs at U.S. Catholic colleges. It is the first environmental sustainability school in the global Jesuit academic network.