Evangelii Gaudium
What the US bishops can learn from the Amazon synod
By Thomas Reese — October 31, 2019
(RNS) — The American Catholic hierarchy isn't ready to follow the synod's search for real-world solutions. Too many conservatives believe that if we simply return to the old ways of doing things, everything will be fine.
Brazilian cardinal urges synod to open doors, knock down walls and build bridges
By Thomas Reese — October 7, 2019
(RNS) — At the first working session of the Vatican's meeting of bishops on the Amazon, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes urged the bishops to work to stop not only depletion of resources in the region but the social ills that accompany it.
Harvey Cox seconds Pope Francis on capitalist critique
By Josephine McKenna — October 27, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) In another step forward for Catholic-Protestant reconciliation, Pope Francis and one of America's leading Protestant theologians agree on a major heresy: the worship of the free market.
COMMENTARY: 10 reasons why evangelicals should read Pope Francis
By John Fea — November 27, 2013
(RNS) While most American evangelicals do not usually read papal pronouncements, it would be a shame if we did not familiarize ourselves with Francis’ newest document, for there is much in it that evangelicals could embrace.
Pope Francis lays out a blueprint for his papacy in ‘Evangelii Gaudium’
By Eric J. Lyman — November 26, 2013
ROME (RNS) "How can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving?" Pope Francis asked. "Today, everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless."
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