28 May 2018 | Address of His Holiness

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONGRESS ORGANIZED BY THE CENTESIMUS ANNUS – PRO PONTIFICE FOUNDATION

Sala Regia

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The current difficulties and crises within the global economic system have an
undeniable ethical dimension: they are related to a mentality of egoism and exclusion
that has effectively created a culture of waste blind to the human dignity of the most
vulnerable. We see this in the growing “globalization of indifference” before obvious
moral challenges confronting our human family. I think especially of the manifold
obstacles to the integral human development of so many of our brothers and sisters,
not only in materially poorer countries but increasingly amid the opulence of the
developed world. I think too of the urgent ethical issues associated with global
movements of migration.
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