VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In the Hebrew Scriptures, God commanded his people to observe a jubilee as a time to restore their relationships with God, with other people and with the land.
Especially since St. John Paul II proclaimed the Holy Year 2000, part of the Catholic Church’s jubilee efforts to repair those relationships has included working for the forgiveness or just restructuring of the foreign debt of the world’s poorest countries.
Proclaiming the Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis appealed to the world’s wealthiest nations to “acknowledge the gravity of so many of their past decisions and determine to forgive the debts of countries that will never be able to repay them.”
“If we really wish to prepare a path to peace in…
