Pope Francis' legacy of fighting church corruption

The World

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News, Lethaldissent

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The work to choose a new pope begins next week with the secretive Papal Conclave. One of Pope Francis' lingering legacies that will need to be addressed: the late pontiff's efforts to reform the Vatican's less-than-transparent finances. Also, Maria Ressa is the Nobel Prize-winning journalist behind the investigative news site, Rappler, based in the Philippines. Her work made her a political enemy of former dictator, Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa joins us to share her experiences standing up for press freedom in the face of authoritarianism. And, Agent Orange is well known as a notorious chemical weapon used by the US in the Vietnam War but there was a lesser-known chemical weapon known as Agent Blue that's still making people sick. And, the new dance craze that Spanish ravers have imported from Holland.

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0:33.6	Music A journalist. A journalist from the Philippines has a warning for the U.S.
0:47.7	We watched our history change in front of our eyes.
0:51.1	Now she says she has deja vu.
0:53.2	I'm Carolyn Beeler. Today, Nobel Prize winner
0:55.6	Maria Ressa joins the show to talk about the rise of autocracy in the Philippines and beyond,
1:01.2	and new research shows how birch trees may be communicating. Nothing happens in nature unless it's
1:07.5	really necessary. In Austria, a Porsche mogul wants to dig a tunnel under a historic 17th century villa.
1:15.3	He does it because he can because he has the money to do it.
1:19.6	And our reporter takes us to a rave.
1:22.5	It's so loud, your whole body becomes like one giant ear.
1:26.1	Your chest, a subwoofer.
1:27.6	That's all ahead today on the world.
1:36.9	This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler.
1:39.7	She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.
1:43.0	For the risks, she took as a journalist in the Philippines under former dictator Rodrigo Duterte.
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