NEWS STORY
RNS-Parra-Vatican: Pope Francis gets death threat as he grapples with Vatican financial scandals
(RNS) – Italian police officers are currently investigating the latest bizarre turn of events in the Vatican financial scandals, after they discovered a letter on Monday containing a threat aimed at none other than Pope Francis. By Claire Giangravè. 800 words. (category i)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Shul-Funding: Jewish and Latino legislators announce funding to renovate century-old synagogue in LA’s Eastside
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Legislators from the Latino and Jewish caucuses on Tuesday, Aug. 10 will gather in the Eastside of Los Angeles to announce $14.9 million in funding to renovate the century-old Breed Street Shul — the religious and cultural anchor of the Eastside’s early Jewish community. The budget allocation will help transform the facility into a shared multipurpose space that will honor the Jewish history of Boyle Heights as well as the area’s residents that are now largely Latino. By Alejandra Molina. 700 words. (category: a)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Reese-Oped: The climate apocalypse is real, and it is coming
(RNS) — The report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released Aug. 9, makes clear that global warming is no longer a theory, it is a proven fact. Science is telling us what has happened and what will happen. Science also is telling us how to stop it from getting worse. As Pope Francis has taught us in his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’”, this will take both individual and systemic conversion because it will require sacrifice on an enormous scale. By Thomas Reese. 645 words. (category: k)