Religious beliefs can provide motivation, hope and endurance in the long and often discouraging task of mobilizing people for social change.
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Ireland is to vote on modernising its conservative Catholic constitution in March.
Sessions ignored the many gospel teaching about love, and used a passagethat has been used historically to justify all manner of immoral behavior, including imperialism, slavery, Nazism and apartheid.
New economic realities have raised new challenges in applying Biblical principles to economic life. But they could still provide guidance on how to help those in need and how to levy taxes.
What Pope Francis did in his surprise TED talk was to relate the social message of Catholicism to people’s real lives.
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Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, Villanova University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Lecturer, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Social History, London South Bank University
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Professor of Sociology, Biola University
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Academic Dean, Centro Latino & Associate Professor of Mission and Global Transformation, Fuller Theological Seminary
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Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
