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Pope Has Best Take on Financial Crisis

Jason Farago — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:13:03 CDT

All of Pope Benedict XVI's gaffes and controversies have obscured his principal appeal, writes Brian Griffiths in the Times of London: he's a scholar, with an uncommon command of theology and philosophy. For Griffiths, a vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, the pope's recent encyclical on the economy is "without doubt the...

Pope Condemns Atheism

Sam Gale Rosen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:00 CST

Pope Benedict issued a strong condemnation of atheism today and warned that advances in technology must be met with similar advancements in ethics. In his second encyclical, the pope said atheist ideologies have "led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," Reuters reports. "Man needs God," he...

100 Years of Anti-Modernism

NewsDude — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:41:16 CDT

Pope Pius X's encyclical "Pascendi Dominici Gregis" turns 100 years old next week. The document decried so-called "modernists" in the Church who looked to new discoveries and theories about human experience and desire to explain religious belief. The ensuing purge of Catholic thinkers did not relent until Paul VI ended...