Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Newsweek, regarding Pope Francis' lasting perspective on global debt relief and the Jubilee Year. Read an excerpt below, or the full article here. 

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By: Brendan Cole

"In a statement to Newsweek, Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA Network, which advises Vatican and Catholic Church leadership, said that Francis had appointed most of the current cardinals who will elect the next pope and so the direction he set for a more transparent and inclusive church, will continue.

As the former Catholic leader of his home country Argentina, where he saw firsthand the impacts of poverty on people, Pope Francis spoke differently than past popes on debt and the financial crisis because of his experience, LeCompte said.

"The focus that Pope Francis had announced for global debt relief and new processes to aid the poor for this Jubilee Year would continue as the central themes," LeCompte added. "The next Pope will likely share the same vision as Francis for our world and for the Church."

Read more here.