"Dear migrants: Before I say anything else I want to bow before your dignity. ... You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise.”
Pope Leo XIV in the Canary Islands.
On @TimesRadio with @hugorifkind at 10:45 BST this morning. So long as the best economics can offer is corrections to market failures, it is not a theory of the public good but a theory of what the private sector is missing. My new book, The Common Good Economy, sets out what should replace it. Links below.
This time last year marked the end of 34 days and 506 miles of my camino from St Jean to Santiago. An incredible experience - spiritual, gastronomical and physical, meeting fantastic people and wonderful sights. Very generous friends donated £1500 to local Hospice. #SpecialTimes
🇮🇹 Meloni :
"I ACCUSE Israel of crossing the red line, I CONDEMN the massacre of Palestinian civilians, and I announce that Italy will SUPPORT European sanctions against Israel."
WOMEN WITH METAL SPINE
Happy feast day of the Venerable Bede, one of the Northern Saints and the first English Doctor of the Church. He wrote the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People'. He was a monk at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow. He died in 735 and his tomb is in @durhamcathedral
#OnThisDay in 1792, the Trevi Fountain was officially opened and inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII. The now-famous landmark was designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and took 3 decades to build.
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ALT The image shows the Trevi Fountain in Rome, featuring ornate sculptures and flowing water. The backdrop includes large columns and intricate architectural details.
We can't do good in the economy without a new economic theory of what good is. Everything else follows from this. In the old economics, doing good is a correction. In an economics of the common good, it is an objective we design and work on together.
The Common Good Economy introduces a compass: five elements that hold everyone who claims to pursue the common good accountable. There are seeds of the common good everywhere. But they don't scale because they touch on one or two elements rather than using the compass holistically.
Tomorrow, I'm speaking at @hayfestival with @zannymb about my new book. Links in replies.
ATCRE Newsletter 22nd May 2026 - GCSE RE Exam feedback request from CES, All Saints Educational Trust Awards for RE teachers, Ladato Si Champions.
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ATCRE Newsletter - May 11th 2026
KS4 RED Consultation, EducareM Programme for Catholic School Leaders, National Retreat for Headteachers, New Book - Footprints of Faith, God Who Speaks Resources for May - mailchi.mp/31125b9c46ab/atcr…
The Tax Avoiding Rich Leaders of Reform have convinced the poorest people in Britain that it’s other poor people -the young, the sick, the disabled, those on welfare & migrants -who are responsible for why they’re not as Rich as the Tax Avoiding Leaders of Reform
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