Cooperatives Facing Challenges Against Titanic Capitalist System.

Conceptualizing Cooperatives as a Challenge to Capitalist Thinking

As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, and a world beyond capitalism becomes a possibility contemplated by increasing numbers of people, finding a path forward becomes an ever more urgent task.
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Former nuns to get civil union in northern Italy

Isabel and Federica are among the many Italians finally able to make their love official, thanks to the civil union bill this year which legalized same sex unions in Italy.

But their story is a little bit different: the 44-year-olds are both former nuns.

Federica is Italian and Isabel South American ( Read more... )

Bernie Sanders says he met with Pope Francis.ROME (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview with The Associated Press that he met with Pope Francis ( Read more... )

Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar who Pope Francis plans to canonize during his first trip to the United States this week, advocated and oversaw the whipping, beating, flogging and extermination of Native Americans in what is now California. Serra, the founder of the state’s first mission in San Diego in 1769, will be the first saint canonized ( Read more... )

Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God.

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Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory. Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal rights activists and vegans.

Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died, Francis told him in a recent public appearance on St. Peter’s Square, “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures ( Read more... )

Pope Francis has ordered the installation of showers for the homeless next to St Peter's Square after a street dweller declared himself too smelly to eat with a bishop ( Read more... )

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach to ministering to Catholic families.

The bishops failed to approve even a watered-down section on ministering to homosexuals that stripped away the ( Read more... )

(Reuters) - In a dramatic shift in tone, a Vatican document said on Monday that homosexuals had "gifts and qualities to offer" and asked if Catholicism could accept gays and recognize positive aspects of same-sex couples.The document, prepared after a week of discussions at an assembly of 200 bishops on the family, said the Church should challenge ( Read more... )

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