Pope Francis apparently sees an opportunity in the coronavirus debacle:
The governments that are tackling the crisis in this way are showing that “the people” are their priority, says the Pope. This is an important decision because we know that “defending the people” results in “economic disaster”, he adds.
“It would be sad to opt for the contrary”, says the Pope as any other way would result in the death of many, many people.
Pope Francis then refers to a meeting held with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in which they reflected on “the now” and “the later”.
Preparing for “the later” is important, says the Pope, and some of the consequences are already noticeable and need to be addressed. One of these, for example, is hunger.
Pope Francis ends his letter by referring to the opinion of economist Mariana Mazzucato in her book “The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Her book explores the need to rethink value, explaining how giving more importance to value rather than price will help make the world a better place. “I think it helps to think about the future” says the Pope.
Go here to read the rest. The virus is a fairly short term menace. The long term menace will be the economic devastation of fighting a virus by bringing economies to a screeching halt, and the bad policies that will be harming us long after the virus is just another virus.
I offer these two articles up. They were posted on Catholic World Report. Both are about Venezuela, and both are frightening. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, the majority of people think The Economy is about their retirement fund, which they will happily see go to zero if their 80 year od grampa does not die of Covid19. Those who have lost their jobs–well, that is what unemployment benefits are for.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venezuela-health-system-crisis-nicolas-maduro.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-venezuela-insight/as-coronavirus-hits-venezuela-maduro-further-quashes-dissent-idUSKBN21C1TA
This spiritually handicapped, spiritually negligent pope and all his Marxist/socialist lieutenants can go to …..
Anti-Catholic Bergoglio, faux Pope, is using the Corvid crisis to advocate a New World Communist Order. And most of Cardinals, Bishops, and priests are supporting him by their silence. This is work of the devil who nearly 60 years ago encouraged the Church to officially make friends with the world and the flesh at Vatican II. We will pay dearly for this departure from Catholic orthodoxy and the failure to vigorously preach and enforce it.
I would dare to say that the problems in the Church are more than 60 years old. Those who wreaked havoc grew up with the Tridentine Mass.
As so often stated, Bergoglio is the product of his enviornment. You have to know Argentine history and more specifically the damage caused by Juan Peron. Bergoglio is a disciple of Juan Peron, a demagogue and charlatan like none ever seen in the US.
Argentina sat out both World Wars. It had the seventh largest economy in the year 1900. Not anymore. Bergoglio is of such a small intellect, belongs to an order that has been in opposition to Church teaching in Latin America and has no capability of learning anything about other nations and their customs. He is incapable of being anything other than who he is.