Father Augusto Zampini

When looking to future, include most vulnerable, Catholics tell G-20 forum
- Oct 17, 2020
COVID-19 provides an opportunity for people to prepare the future, and religious leaders have an opportunity to make sure that preparation includes the world’s most vulnerable, said Catholic participants in the annual G-20 Interfaith Forum.

By Bronwen Dachs
Vatican official: ‘Radical’ response needed for ‘radical’ COVID-19 crisis
- Sep 1, 2020
According to a member of Pope Francis’s commission for a post-COVID-19 world, there’s a need for a radical response to a “radical crisis.”

By Inés San Martín
Vatican COVID-19 commission seeks to ‘prepare the future’
- Jul 1, 2020
Pope Francis believes that the human person is not immune to crises but always impacted by them. Being better or worse after each one, he’s often said, is “up to us.” With that in mind, the Vatican’s COVID-19 coronavirus crisis task force is identifying what needs to be changed.

By Inés San Martín

Vatican vows to help poor and jobless, insisting, ‘That’s not socialism’
- May 16, 2020
As the Catholic Church and governments around the world are exploring different solutions to the fallout of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, one Vatican official has said the ecclesial priority will be assisting those impacted by new forms of poverty due to unemployment.

By Elise Ann Allen
Same storm, different boats: Vatican looks at ways to help all survive
- Apr 30, 2020
Pope Francis and his COVID-19 response commission want to see religious, economic and social life resume, but they question the wisdom of hoping for a return to a “normal” that left so many people struggling.

By Cindy Wooden
Returning from Davos, Vatican official speaks of ‘hopeful’ change in world leaders
- Feb 9, 2020
Jesuit Father Augusto Zampini Davies – the director of development and faith at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development since its creation in 2016 – says caring for justice, peace, inclusion, solidarity, healthcare and the environment are all Gospel values.

By Inés San Martín