Peruvian Foreign Minister César Landa Arroyo, centre, and Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, look at the mummies that will be returned to Peru. The two signed a formal agreement for the mummies’ repatriation October 17 in the Vatican Museums. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media. Academy for Life defends appointment of economist despite abortion posts Convinced that poverty, inequality and economic systems are killing millions of people each year and threatening the dignity of many more people, Pope Francis appointed an economist to the Pontifical Academy for Life. But the nomination of Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of the economics of…
