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Conservative cardinals have five questions or ‘dubia.’ I have six.

By Thomas Reese — October 10, 2023
(RNS) — Traditionalists don't like Pope Francis because he is the first truly post-Counter-Reformation pope, with perhaps the exception of John XXIII.

Buying Starbucks with gold? A halal investing app is making it possible.

By Kathryn Post — February 3, 2023
(RNS) — Wahed, an Islamic fintech company launched in 2017, now offers brick-and-mortar banks and gold-backed debit cards.

Trump should heed French economist Piketty and levy an Islamic tax

By Tahir Nasser — November 22, 2016
(RNS) Thomas Piketty advocated for the kind of tax that would help the working class that elected Donald Trump. The bad news for the president-elect is that it is a solution that has actually been a part of Islam for the past 1,400 years in what is known as zakat.
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