By: Silvia Davila MM
Bogotá/ Copyright
Photo 1: Paco Campos (EFE) El País Newspaper
Photo 2: Google Images
June 16/2013
VOICES OF CHANGE
Photo 2: Google Images
June 16/2013
VOICES OF CHANGE
The G-8 that begins this week is a meeting that summons the richest countries on Earth. An interesting gathering to address this world´s challenges, development and change. Among the many voices that raise around this specific meeting there is one positioned in an interesting place. It is a voice that defends not specific economic or political interests, regions or peoples but a voice that speaks for Humanity seen as a whole, complete, comprehensive group. Here is part of his mind on this issue:
"…The goal
of economics and politics is to serve humanity, beginning with the poorest and
most vulnerable wherever they may be, even in their mothers' wombs. Every
economic and political theory or action must set about providing each
inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and
freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children,
praising God and developing one's own human potential. This is the main thing;
in the absence of such a vision, all economic activity is meaningless. In this
sense, the various grave economic and political challenges facing today's world
require a courageous change of attitude that will restore to the end (the human
person) and to the means (economics and politics) their proper place. Money and
other political and economic means must serve, not rule, bearing in mind that,
in a seemingly paradoxical way, free and disinterested solidarity is the key to
the smooth functioning of the global economy. (…) With a view to highlighting
what is implicit in all political choices, but can sometimes be forgotten: the
primary importance of putting humanity, every single man and woman, at the
center of all political and economic activity, both nationally and
internationally, because man is the truest and deepest resource for politics
and economics, as well as their ultimate end. " Pope Francisco. *Source: Vatican News
The world we all share. / June 16/2013- SDMM
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