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Pope Francis said that for his spiritual message to be credible, the Vatican’s finances had to be credible as well.

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This center of learning is one marker of the early phases of an Islamic Renaissance that flourished ... Frederick Starr’s book, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab ...