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encyclical stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

Pope Has
Best Take on Financial Crisis

Goldman exec touts Benedict's 6-point plan for global economy

Jul 13, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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ethics • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Goldman Sachs • capitalism • Catholicism • encyclical • free markets • financial crisis

Pope Condemns Atheism

Lack of belief 'has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice'

Nov 30, 07 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Marxism • encyclical • atheism

100 Years of Anti-Modernism

Pius X's 1907
'Pascendi' slammed 'modernists' in the Catholic Church

Sep 2, 07 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Pius X • encyclical • Paul VI

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