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CAFOD blames IMF’s ‘devastating’ role in global debt crisis

April 18, 2024

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank hold their Spring meeting, a leading Catholic international aid group says the world is sinking “deeper into a global sovereign debt crisis”. The world’s two leading financial behemoths are meeting in Washington, DC, from 15-20 April. But while their respective representatives and experts meet and

Why economists made a pilgrimage to Vatican City

February 13, 2020

It was quite an impressive array of experts, advocates and power-brokers that participated in a conference last week hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, to explore “New Forms of Solidarity: Towards Fraternal Inclusion, Integration and Innovation” at the Casina Pio IV. They included Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),

Catholics must find the courage to criticise our economic system, cardinal says

February 14, 2015

Cardinal Rodríguez says architects of financial crisis are playing golf, while millions can't afford a home

If you want to help the world’s poor, support the religious orders

November 01, 2012

Missionary orders stay with the destitute long after every western charity has left