RNS Opening Budget—Monday, October 12, 2020

NEWS STORY RNS-POPE-TED: Pope, in second TED talk, sides with science on climate change: “We have few years” (RNS) – Pope Francis takes the side of science to combat climate change and growing inequality, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in a recorded TED talk streamed on Saturday (Oct. 10). By Claire Giangravè. 560 words. (category: […]

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RNS-POPE-TED: Pope, in second TED talk, sides with science on climate change: “We have few years”
(RNS) – Pope Francis takes the side of science to combat climate change and growing inequality, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in a recorded TED talk streamed on Saturday (Oct. 10). By Claire Giangravè. 560 words. (category: i)

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RNS-BARRETT-CATHOLICISM: Amy Coney Barrett nomination fight leaves progressive Catholics feeling unseen
(LOS ANGELES) RNS — This week’s Senate hearings may have the effect of centering Barrett’s conservative Catholicism, which is strongly anti-abortion and opposed to same-sex marriage, as the “true Catholicism,” a notion that, some progressive Catholics say, ignores the diversity of American Catholic communities. By Alejandra Molina. 832 words (category: a)