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Can The Pope's Vatican Redesign Our Economy? An Interview With Cardinal Turkson
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bdoher...interview-with-cardinal-turkson/#52848d8d1ae5
Pope Francis has an ambitious goal: to redesign our global economy to serve even our most vulnerable. His vision of a new 'social economy' is one that discards and hides no one. Can he do it?
This month I flew to the Vatican to find out.
I sat with Cardinal Peter Turkson, whom His Holiness tapped to lead their efforts to build the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Cardinal Turkson is the Pope's top advisor on integral human development and is helping shape the newly launched Laudato Si' Challenge - an initiative to seed fund and accelerate entrepreneurs building companies that change the world.
Below is my interview with Cardinal Turkson, lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
Turkson: Right. At the core, at the central point of this, is a human person.
Doherty: Right. And do you think it's possible to redesign our entire economy around that idea?
Turkson: It is, it is. I mean our economics are about the administration of the household. If we expand this, we make the whole world our household. There's the need to safeguard, plan, and administer its resources so that it serves our world. As Pope Francis invites us to recognize - the household is the whole world. It’s our household. It's our common home.
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Pope Francis urges Europe to build social economy
https://guardian.ng/news/pope-francis-urges-europe-to-build-social-economy/
Pope Francis on Friday urged Europe to “tear down” the walls being built to keep out migrants and to create a radical new “social economy” serving the many not the few.
Invoking the memory of the EU’s founding fathers’ pursuit of integration in the aftermath of World War II, the pontiff said they inspired because they had “dared to change radically the models” that had led to war.
Saying he dreamed of a Europe in which “being a migrant is not a crime,” Francis said: “Today more than ever, their vision inspires us to build bridges and tear down walls.”
The comments came in a speech at the Vatican following the 79-year-old pontiff’s presentation with the EU’s Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unification.
And after that reference to the migrant crisis, Francis went on to say Europe had to fundamentally change its economic model.
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No surprise here. The pope is pushing for an integrated world wide social economy in which no one is left out under the guise of *serving* or *helping* the poor. Yet the multi billion dollar a year business which is the Roman Catholic church refuses to open its own coffers to help the poor and disfranchised.
The Pope sips wine in golden goblets of spacious and lavishly ordained *churches* while the poor he always mentions sit outside of his Vatican daily and get pushed out by Roman Catholic Security guards.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bdoher...interview-with-cardinal-turkson/#52848d8d1ae5
Pope Francis has an ambitious goal: to redesign our global economy to serve even our most vulnerable. His vision of a new 'social economy' is one that discards and hides no one. Can he do it?
This month I flew to the Vatican to find out.
I sat with Cardinal Peter Turkson, whom His Holiness tapped to lead their efforts to build the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Cardinal Turkson is the Pope's top advisor on integral human development and is helping shape the newly launched Laudato Si' Challenge - an initiative to seed fund and accelerate entrepreneurs building companies that change the world.
Below is my interview with Cardinal Turkson, lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
Turkson: Right. At the core, at the central point of this, is a human person.
Doherty: Right. And do you think it's possible to redesign our entire economy around that idea?
Turkson: It is, it is. I mean our economics are about the administration of the household. If we expand this, we make the whole world our household. There's the need to safeguard, plan, and administer its resources so that it serves our world. As Pope Francis invites us to recognize - the household is the whole world. It’s our household. It's our common home.
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Pope Francis urges Europe to build social economy
https://guardian.ng/news/pope-francis-urges-europe-to-build-social-economy/
Pope Francis on Friday urged Europe to “tear down” the walls being built to keep out migrants and to create a radical new “social economy” serving the many not the few.
Invoking the memory of the EU’s founding fathers’ pursuit of integration in the aftermath of World War II, the pontiff said they inspired because they had “dared to change radically the models” that had led to war.
Saying he dreamed of a Europe in which “being a migrant is not a crime,” Francis said: “Today more than ever, their vision inspires us to build bridges and tear down walls.”
The comments came in a speech at the Vatican following the 79-year-old pontiff’s presentation with the EU’s Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unification.
And after that reference to the migrant crisis, Francis went on to say Europe had to fundamentally change its economic model.
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No surprise here. The pope is pushing for an integrated world wide social economy in which no one is left out under the guise of *serving* or *helping* the poor. Yet the multi billion dollar a year business which is the Roman Catholic church refuses to open its own coffers to help the poor and disfranchised.
The Pope sips wine in golden goblets of spacious and lavishly ordained *churches* while the poor he always mentions sit outside of his Vatican daily and get pushed out by Roman Catholic Security guards.
