Becky Wilf shared and I want to share also: To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us. - Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation Meredith, his entire writing on the subject is truly incisive and compelling reading.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:17:44 +0000
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