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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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February 14, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Odds on an African Pope
British, Irish, and Australian bookmakers will place odds on anything. They are already looking at possible successors to Pope Benedict XVI. The odds change by the minute, but the three favorites in…
June 21, 2017
Nigeria
Pope Demands Obedience From Nigerian Catholics
Pope Francis has demanded that priests of the Roman Catholic diocese of Ahiara accept the bishop appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 and that each priest in the diocese write him a personal letter…
March 7, 2013
Religion
Papal Succession in the Catholic Church
The election of pope to lead the world’s one billion Catholics stirs debate over the spiritual authority of the pontiff and the church’s role in the world.
May 12, 2009
Vatican City
Vatican-Israel Relations
Relations between the Vatican and Israel are a complex combination of diplomacy mixed with interfaith discussion.
June 18, 2015
Vatican City
How to Read Pope Francis on the Environment
The pope’s encyclical on the environment carries a profoundly religious message about care for the earth, wedded to a new call for activism, say religious scholars Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.