POPE FRANCIS: .…the great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their power of attraction and being replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of Europe’s institutions. Together with this come certain rather selfish lifestyles marked by an opulence, which is no longer sustainable, and which is frequently indifferent to the world around us and especially to the poorest. To our dismay we see technical and economic questions dominating political debate to the detriment of any genuine concern for human beings. The human being risks being reduced to a mere cog in a machine that treats them as items of consumption to be exploited with a result that as is so tragically apparent whenever a human life no longer prove useful to the machine, it is discarded with few qualms as in the case of …the terminally, the old who are abandoned and uncared for and the children who are killed before they are born. This is the great mistake that happens when technology is allowed to take over. The result is a confusion between ends and means. It is the inevitable consequence of a throw-away culture and of uncontrolled consumerism. If on the other hand if we uphold the dignity of the person that means that we are acknowledging the value of human life which is freely given us and hence, cannot be an object of trade or commerce.….” https://youtube/watch?v=SeVFMc170yU
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:27:52 +0000
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