Tag Archives: Catholicism

In Memoriam David Graeber: How Debt Has Come to Shape Humanity

Over the last 5,000 years, what has made the concept of debt so strangely powerful?

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Poland’s Catholic Neo-Communists

PiS aims to create a repressive, homogeneous society not much different from the late unlamented Polish People’s Republic — albeit in the name of Jesus Christ, not Karl Marx.

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Next: An African Pope?

Where is the Catholic Church growing? When will the Vatican hierarchy lose its European/Western bent?

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China and the Catholic Church

What similar challenges do the new leaders in the Vatican and China both face?

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Cleaning Up the Vatican Bank

Will Pope Francis be able to complete the reform of the Vatican Bank?

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Pope Francis: A Martin Luther in the Making?

Is Jorge Bergoglio up to the task of reforming the Catholic Church without breaking it apart? Governance reforms are centuries overdue.

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Goldman Sachs and the Vatican: Two Cultures of Infallibility

What does the world's most successful financial firm need to learn from the travails of the Catholic Church?

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An American in Poland, Anno 1983: Return to the West (Part V)

After viewing a country under oppressive Soviet rule, what impressions would an American student take back home?

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An American in Poland, Anno 1983: The Role of Churches (Part III)

How can shared hardships bring people of different faiths together?

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Anglicans: A Hostile Takeover From the Continent?

Why do the Vatican's policymakers believe the Church of England is in Chapter 11?

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