Remember Pope Francis by addressing ‘ecological debt,’ pontifical academy president urges
April 29, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Sister Helen Alford, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, joined other economists and academics in signing “Honoring Pope Francis’s legacy: A call to action for global justice.”
“If those who honor him today truly wish to carry forward his spiritual legacy, they could begin by seizing the opportunity of the Jubilee to fulfil one of his major hopes,” the signatories wrote, as they called for
Using this moment to establish mechanisms of compensation between the “ecological debt” of wealthy countries and the foreign debt of poorer nations, a burden that has become increasingly unsustainable, worsened by the current global macroeconomic environment of high interest rates and the unequal treatment of debtor nations.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.
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