A commission appointed by the late Pope Francis has released a new report highlighting the urgent need to address global debt, which has hindered sustainable development and climate action. The ...

The Vatican has endorsed a report calling for reforms to alleviate the global debt crisis affecting billions of people in developing countries. The document, titled “The Jubilee Report: A ...

The Vatican called for sweeping reforms to a global financial system it says punishes the poor and rewards the powerful.

Leaders gathered for the Financing for Development (F4D) conference in Spain faced urgent calls from leading economists and ...

In this pastoral letter, Pope Francis laments the state of environmental damage and global warming, criticising consumerism and taking aim at the “modern myth of unlimited material progress”.

The pope’s attention to migration and climate change were well known, but the pope was also attentive to a number of other global issues and challenges like nuclear disarmament, tax justice ...

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, marking the Jubilee of Hope, issued a report on debt and development in the world and the need for a sustainable, people-centered global economy June 20 ...

Francis selected cardinals who he felt shared his sense of the church — that it should be less hierarchical and more pastoral — but they do not necessarily embrace his more inclusive view of ...

In that case, Pope Francis’s successor, Leo XIV, will no doubt be ready to take up the call for widespread debt relief.