Tony Abbott gets some lucky breaks. Imagine if Pope Francis had issued [this week’s encyclical - with its clarion call for the world to address climate change - last year in the run up to the G20 hosted by Australia.
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The immediate importance of the Pope Francis’ encyclical comes from its potential to influence world leaders and galvanise the developing world ahead of the Paris Climate Conference this year.
Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I’ve always found it a bit difficult to take men who go to work wearing silk dresses, lots of jewellery, and improbably large hats terribly seriously. Plenty of people…
The pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’ tells us to protect nature and act on climate change for more than reasons of self interest.
The pope’s encyclical challenges the belief in markets to solve social ills – a difficult message for Catholic Republican presidential candidates to accept.
Pope Francis’s intervention in the climate debate puts him on collision course with global elites.
By equating human rights to the protection of nature, the pope’s encyclical opens up an international debate with broad political implications.
For people who take the Bible seriously – not only Catholics – the pope’s encyclical on climate change and the environment will change minds.
The long-awaited papal encyclical on the environment could have a significant influence on conservative politics around the world.
Pope Francis is set to release an encyclical on climate change next month, which he hopes will influence this year’s Paris climate talks as well as continuing his work on behalf of the world’s poorest.
On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
A century on, the murder of 1.5m Armenians by the Ottoman Empire must be recognised as genocide.
The upcoming encyclical from Pope Francis can transform the climate change culture wars in America.
What does a century-old sci-fi novel have to do with the Vatican’s view of Islamic State?
Approaching his third year as head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis appeared to be doing so well. That is, until after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, he’s said that those who mock faith should be…
On Wednesday, the White House announced that the United States would resume diplomatic relations with Cuba in a deal that was brokered with a great deal of help from the Holy See. A statement released…
In late November, the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis is going to visit the United States of America for the World Meeting of Families that will take place in Philadelphia at the end of September 2015…
If Dumber and Dumber To, Interstellar and Big Hero 6 didn’t get you to the movies last week, you weren’t alone: just before Thanksgiving, Box Office Mojo put year-to-date gross receipts at almost $9 billion…
The Extraordinary Synod on the Family, convened by Pope Francis in Rome from October 5 to 19, was intended to open up an honest and wide-ranging debate about the Catholic Church’s teaching and pastoral…
A report of debate from the first half of the extraordinary synod of Catholic bishops meeting in Rome has been described as a “pastoral earthquake” and a “seismic shift in Rome” for praising gay relationships…
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