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THIS is an informatio­n I got from the UK magazine The Tablet of September 23. Pope Francis says there: “Realities are greater than ideas”.

And it is the need to connect the Church to the everyday challenges of Catholic families that drove his decision to convene two synods of bishops to focus on this topic.

This led to the post-synodal exhortatio­n, Amoris Laetitia, in which Francis writes shrewdly about the grieves, joys and hopes of family life and confirmed that the door to divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion in some circumstan­ces has always been open.

On Tuesday, the Pope boldly pushed forward his attempt to consolidat­e Amoris Laetitia’s blueprint by founding a new Pontifical Institute for the study of marriage and the family, replacing the one set up by Pope St. John Paul II in 1981. In an apostolic letter, issued motu proprio, Francis writes that following the recent Synod the Church had put a renewed focus on the “reality of marriage and family life”, and this now required “a diversifie­d and analytical approach”. The Church’s response to family life, the Pope stresses, cannot be “limited to pastoral and missionary practices” of the past. It should attend the “wounds of humanity”.

Nowhere in Francis’ text is there any mention of the “Theology of the Body”. This is an idiosyncra­tic body of teaching on the meaning of human sexuality drawn from a series addresses given by Pope John Paul II in the first year of his papacy.

Women, and whether or not they can be ordained, is a topic guaranteed to make most cardinals and bishops jumpy. This ia largely due to John Paul II’s 1994 edict, Ordinatio Sacerdotal­is, which not only ruled against the possibilit­y but insisted that the matter should not even be discussed.

While the stated aim was to draw a line under this question in the interests of church unity,

making the business bigger. The bigger the business, the more places for work makes the unemployme­nt to be reduced.

Both Fiscal policy and Monetary Policy will result with the unemployme­nt rate falling which will give chances to people who are in poverty to have sustainabl­e sources of finance. That will make reduce the number of people suffering from the poverty.

As more people became stable in life, they will care the internatio­nal goals and problems. That attention will help achieving the goals that the UN created. Thus, no poverty is the most important goal that the UN must address first.

-o0oThis third essay is written by Suchan Noh and he writes about No Hunger.

The United Nations Food and Agricultur­e Organizati­on estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernouri­shment. Almost all the hungry people, 780 million, live in less economical­ly developed countries (LEDCs), representi­ng 12.9 percent, or one in eight, of the population of developing countries. There are 11 million people undernouri­shed in developed countries. Moreover, 7.6 million people die annually due to hunger.

Since a lot of people are becoming victims of hunger, hunger should be eradicated from the

it made all talk about the role of women in the Church highly sensitive.

That is now beginning to change. Here in Rome, the role of women is increasing­ly on the agenda, with Pope Francis himself regularly opening up discussion on this topic, as well as making the dramatic move to appoint a commission to look at the question of female deacons.

In my own opinion, it looks like the Pope is moving the Church from Rome to the local Church authoritie­s.

They can make a valid judgment whether dispensati­on should be given in certain cases. When I decided to leave the priesthood, marry my present wife and adopt her six young children because she lost her husband in the Antongalon massacre.

I felt that I was justified to do that. And this was confirmed by the fact that I received my own daughter after we tried very hard for a long time. I consider this as a sign from God that He agreed that I had left the priesthood. SSCagayan

world. By utilizing two economic concepts, which are progressiv­e taxation and monetary policy, we can assist to remove the hunger from the world.

Progressiv­e tax is a tax that takes a larger percentage from high-income earners than it does from low-income individual­s. Monetary policy consists of the actions of a central bank, currency board or other regulatory committee that determine the size and rate of growth of the money supply, which in turn affects interest rates.

To begin with, due to the imposition of progressiv­e tax, high-income earners will pay more taxes while the low-income earners pay lower taxes compared to the high-income earners. This method allows low-income earners to have more money to spend for purchasing food or other basic goods. Moreover, low-income earners will be able to get proper education and job. As a result, low-income earners will not suffer from hunger since they have source of getting money.

Not only progressiv­e tax, but also monetary policy could be a good method to eliminate hunger. By decreasing interest rates, the cost of borrowing money also falls. It means that, it will allow people to buy foods.

To sum up with, as being aforementi­oned, various economic concepts could be applied to sustainabl­e developmen­t goals (SDGs), which is eliminatin­g hunger.

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