Posts Tagged ‘Peter Turkson’

Church cannot remain indifferent to sinking Pacific Islands

Friday, May 8th, 2015

Cardinal Peter Turkson says the Church cannot remain indifferent to the the plight of sinking pacific islands. He says he is sometimes approached by people telling him that he entered the seminary to save souls, not to “meddle” with political or scientific issues. “But I have bishops in the Pacific Islands telling me the land Read more

Vatican’s financial document complex route to publication

Friday, November 25th, 2011

The unusual and somewhat mysterious gestation process of Vatican documents came into the spotlight recently, thanks to a controversial white paper on economic justice. In essence, critics of the document – which called for a global authority to curb the excesses of financial markets – speculated that its authors had done an “end run” to Read more