In other words, Sloth is a Biblical sin. And the longer we allow generations to sit around on the dole and not working productively, we will reap the wages of that sin.
"Social justice" does not.
I think the jury is still out on what this Pope’s position is on Capitalism and Social Justice. One day he condemns Socialism and then the next he condemns “unfettered Capitalism.” What I do know is that the one period in human history that created more wealth and pulled more people out of poverty, and immensely increased standards of living across the world, was the period from the mid-to-late 1700s through the early-to-mid 1900s when “unfettered Capitalism” was at its height. God created Capitalism and it is an unqualified force for good in the world.
Obama, please pick up the RED courtesy phone.
Pope Francis is right. It’s really bad when economic systems don’t have jobs available for young adults who are ready form households and achieve independence from their parents.
My oldest daughter joined the military when she was 18, but her brothers are going to have a harder time navigating the education-to-employment trail.
It’s not like unemployment caused World War 2 or anything...oh wait...
“Good morning to all of you! They said…I have heard some strange things being said about you: that you are not “the kinds of saints I pray for” (he said this in reference to a comment Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki made about journalists on the papal flight when she greeted him Ed.). I am here among lions; well not really lions; at least not today…But thank you. I really don’t do interviews, because I don’t know, I can’t, that’s just the way it is…I find them a bit tiresome but I thank you for your company.
My first trip is to go and visit young people. But not young people who are excluded from their own lives: I hope to find them integrated into the social fabric, into society. Because by excluding young people we commit an injustice: we take away their sense of belonging. Young people do belong somewhere, they belong to a family, a country, a culture and a faith. So we must not isolate them, we should not exclude them from society. They really are a population’s future that is a fact. They are the future. But not only them: they have a future because they are strong, they are young, they will move forward.
But life’s other extreme, the elderly, are also a people’s future, because people have a future if they make the most of both strengths: the young move society forward with their strength and the elderly with their life’s wisdom. I often think we do our elderly an injustice. We leave them out as if they had nothing to offer and yet they have wisdom, the wisdom of life, historical, national and family wisdom. And we need that.
Young people are in the midst of a crisis and we are used to a culture of “discarding”. This happens a lot with the elderly but now it is happening with these unemployed young people as well. They adopt this discarding culture. We need to put a stop to this and promote a culture of inclusion. We need to make an effort to include everyone in society. This is part of the reason I wanted to pay this visit to young people. To young people in society. Thank you my dearest “kinds of saints I do not pray for” who are not really that lion-like…
I ask you to help me during this visit, for the sake of good, of society, of the young and especially of the elderly. I thank all of you. Like the prophet Daniel, I feel a bit sad because I’ve noticed the “lions” have proved not to be that fierce!”