Posted on 03/31/2020 5:40:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Mar 30, 2020 / 11:16 am (CNA).- In a private letter to an Argentine judge, Pope Francis is reported to have warned that government decisions to prioritize the economy over people could result in a “viral genocide.”
“The governments that face the crisis in this way show the priority of their decisions: the people first. ... It would be sad if they opted for the opposite, which would lead to the death of very many people, something like a viral genocide,” Pope Francis wrote in a letter sent March 28, according to America Magazine, which reported it had obtained the letter.
The pope sent a handwritten note in response to a letter from Judge Roberto Andres Gallardo, the president of the Pan-American Committee of Judges for Social Rights, Argentine news agency Telam reported March 29.
“We are all concerned at the increase … of the pandemic,” Pope Francis wrote, while praising some governments for “adopting exemplary measures with priorities that are well targeted at defending the population” and serving “the common good.”
The pope also said he was “edified by the response of so many people, doctors, nurses, volunteers, religious, priests, who risk their lives to heal and defend healthy people from contagion,” Telam reported.
Pope Francis recounted in the letter that he has been in discussions with the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development to “prepare ourselves for what follows” the global coronavirus outbreak.
“There are already some consequences that must be faced: hunger, especially for people without permanent work, violence, the appearance of usurers (who are the true plague of a social future, dehumanized criminals),” he wrote, according to Telam.
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Somebody shut this idiot up.
Please.
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What a negative person...always giving his anti-Trump opinion on any subject.
All actions and statements of this Pope should be viewed through the logic that he is an avowed socialist but I suspect Marxist. His writings affirm his socialism. I am not sure about his possible Marxism but do think he is a Marxist of logic.
This pope is destroying my church. I now go to a protestant church as my church under the guidance of this pope has left me. I did not leave my church, it left me. Hopefully in the future I can return to my church. It will never be under the guidance of this pope.
That SOB is nothing but a loud-mouthed backbencher. STFU and go tend to your broken church, Bergoglio.
The economy is people. People are the economy.
The economy IS people.
Every story of dmthe great depression show the human devastation of a broken economy
Thanks Frank,go get your shine box.
If it makes him feel any better, my planned contribution to the local bishop’s annual fundraising campaign was the first thing I eliminated from my budget when I re-assessed my business plan for the year as this fiasco unfolded.
“The strong make much. The weak make little. The dead make none.”
-Charlton Heston, The Ten Commandments
Don’t tell the idiot “pope” that. People want to have a purpose in life and to do this they enjoy. Trying to force people into hiding for weeks, months, etc. does huge harm to confidence.
We heed a balance to ChiCom Virus and lettign people work and enjoy life.
This man is no vicker of mine... His socialist rants must have Pope John Paul II rollong over in his tomb.
I used to regularly donate to my church, since they went fell leftist those donations stopped. They still send me letters/literature spouting their leftist ideology and begging for money.
yes now we know Trump needs to do a u-turn on this 30 day plan
All people who say that always have Wuhan-resistant jobs. Funny that.
Aw shut up ya piker. Go sit in a corner. Let the good guys handle this one.
I warn the Pope over the catastrophe if the economy doesn’t pick up soon.
It is my opinion that there will be more people dead because of the downturn than the virus will kill
Yet another leftist partisan presents a false dichotomy that guarantees no solution to the problem.
He’s just one of those people - whatever he says - do the opposite.
I think you have it wrong. It is Jorge Bergoglio who has left the Church. The Church will remain, despite him.
Thanks, Frank.
Now sit down and STFU.
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