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Pope to take his post-pandemic pleas to global stage

When he addresses, via video message, the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 21, Pope Francis is expected to speak about using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to rethink economic, political and environmental policies in a way that will benefit humanity and the earth.

• Beatified teen showed that heaven is ‘attainable goal,’ cardinal says

  

  By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
  Published October 10, 2020

  Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified Oct. 10 in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi.

• Georgia Tech students partner with CRS to reduce fleet emissions

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published September 17, 2020

  While staffers with Catholic Relief Services delivered needed supplies to far-flung parts of the globe, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how its missions of mercy could be done with fewer car emissions.

• Common good, not greed, must motivate search for vaccine, pope says

  

  By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
  Published September 9, 2020

  The common good should be at the heart of the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience Sept. 9.