August 26, 2020 by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis speak
during a live-streamed weekly private audience from the library of
the apostolic palace in the Vatican during the COVID-19 coronavirus
pandemic. (Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA /
AFP)
Pope Francis urged young Catholic entrepreneurs Saturday
to develop a new, more just economic model that could save a
mistreated planet while helping the poor and the
excluded.
Francis spoke via a video message beamed to a virtual meeting of
young business leaders and urged them to make major changes to
global economic relationships.
“You recognize the urgent need for a different economic
narrative,” the pontiff said in comments translated into
English.
“The present world system is certainly unsustainable from a
number of points of view and is harming our sister earth, so
gravely maltreated and despoiled, together with the poor and the
excluded in our midst,” the pope remarked.
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He pointed out that the coronavirus epidemic had caused people
to think about the situation the world found itself in.
“Once the present health crisis has passed, the worst reaction
would be to fall even more deeply into feverish consumerism,”
Francis added.
The Argentinian-born pope has regularly taken capitalism to
task, accusing it of indifference to social inequality and a party
to the depletion of the planet’s resources.
He pressed the young business leaders and academics from 115
countries to “give birth to an economic culture” that inspired
trust and created resources “that will enlighten minds, warm
hearts” and give “all young people, with no one excluded — a vision
of the future.”
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