Pope Francis may be hospitalized and U.S. President Donald Trump may be wreaking havoc on foreign aid, but one of the Catholic Church’s leading crusaders for debt cancellation believes those factors are all the more reason to double down on efforts to alleviate poverty during Jubilee 2025.
“The reality is that Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have already laid out the focus for the Jubilee Year on debt relief and economic relief to deal with poverty and climate issues,” said Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of faith-based development and debt-relief advocacy organizations.
The Old Testament tradition of jubilee years as a time of forgiveness — both of sins and of debt —…
