Solidarity facing poverty created by the crisis: what is the Church doing?

The report of the Spanish Economic and Social Council (CES) 2011, presented a few days ago, stated that Spain  is among the countries registering the highest increases in population at risk of poverty and social exclusion, having gone from 23.4%  in 2009 to 25.5%  in 2010 (latest data published). In presenting the report the president of […]

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Toward a holistic understanding of economic activity

In mid-2009, when the current crisis had already been unfolding for some time, Benedict XVI wrote: “The different aspects of the crisis, its solutions, and any new development that the future may bring, are increasingly interconnected, they imply one another, they require new efforts of holistic understanding and a new humanistic synthesis.” This quotation comes […]