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Pope on interviews: Church must listen, respond to people’s questions
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- October 17, 2017
Pope Francis is famous for giving interviews, and he says he prefers small, neighborhood newspapers and magazines. “In fact, in those cases I really am listening to the questions and concerns of common people. I try to respond spontaneously, in a conversation I hope is understandable, and not with rigid formulas,” he said. A new book collecting his interviews is coming out this week in Italian.
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A pastor explains his politics after saying Trump has authority to attack North Korea
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- August 15, 2017
Pastor Robert Jeffress says people have overreacted to his statement that God has given President Donald Trump the authority to “take out” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Baptist leader said the Bible has given government the authority to use whatever force necessary, including assassination or war, to topple an evil dictator. The remarks came just a month after an article in a Vatican-approved journal said an Evangelical fundamentalism that was “not adverse to conflicts” was exerting influence on U.S. politics.
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Trump advisor seeks meeting with Pope Francis after “incendiary” article in Jesuit journal
- Church in the US
- August 8, 2017
An Evangelical leader aligned with Donald Trump has called an article about U.S. politics in the Jesuit-run journal La Civiltà Cattolica “incendiary,” but says “rather than being offended, we have chosen to attempt to make peace,” and asked for a meeting with Pope Francis.
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A Latino/a take: Vatican’s ‘ecumenism of hate’ essay is onto something
- Commentary
- August 7, 2017
Theologian and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Miguel H. Diaz, contends that the central theological insights and socio-political implications for American society voiced by Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro and Reverend Marcelo Figueroa in a controversial article on U.S. politics in a Vatican-affiliated publication find a home within the hearts of Latinos/as and other “underrepresented” communities in the United States.
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Evangelicals are potential allies for the good, not partners in hate
- Commentary
- July 17, 2017
Trumpism, so to speak, which is a lot more complicated than most analysis allows for, had made it ever-easier to lump all elements of more-right-of-center American activism together. It’s important to remember that many Catholics and Evangelicals are forming coalitions in an attempt to discern God’s call to each one of us about the common good, on the front lines.
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Article by pope’s confidantes adds little to understanding Trump’s America
- Commentary
- July 15, 2017
A recent article in the influential Rome-based ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ – which is reviewed by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State before publication – politics of the Trump administration has its roots in an unholy alliance between “Evangelical Fundamentalism” and “Catholic Integralism.” But does it patronize Evangelicals and mischaracterize certain Catholics to make its point?
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