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The popes versus the free market

The popes versus the free market

Pope Benedict’s new social encyclical is finished and will be released in May. It will commemorate Paul VI’s 1967 document on the development of peoples, and address the great global problems of hunger and gross poverty, climate change, human rights, nuclear weapons and disarmament, violence, fundamentalism and peace. The encyclical has been delayed two years [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Church and Social Justice,Economic issues | Read More »

A response to global warming

A response to global warming

A civil engineer, Geoff Lacey is also well known as a pioneering environmentalist and naturalist. He is the author of a landmark work on the ecology of the Yarra, “Still glides the Stream”: the Natural History of the Yarra from Heidelberg to Yarra Bend (2004). He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of [...]

April 1st, 2009 | Posted in SPC Events 2009 | Read More »