Cardinal Renato Martino affirmed this in a press conference during a visit he is making to Chile through Wednesday.
"The economic crisis, which is manifested throughout the world, perhaps is a sign that the world is not made up only of bills, money and the economy. […] [The crisis] serves as a reminder that the human person must be put at the center of the whole of world economy," he said, as reported by the Chilean episcopal conference.
Catholic bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, New York, who serves as chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, urged the Bush administration and Congress, September 26, to consider the moral aspects of the current financial crisis. The letter stressed responsibility, accountability, awareness of advantages and limitations of the market, solidarity, subsidiarity and the common good, in the search for just and effective responses to the economic turmoil, while considering its human impact and ethical dimensions.
Read the whole document here and tell me what you think.
http://ragincajuncatholics.blogspot.com
No comments:
Post a Comment