{"id":1063,"date":"2017-06-17T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T09:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2017-06-17T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T09:13:40","slug":"in-book-foreword-pope-francis-calls-corruption-a-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/06\/17\/in-book-foreword-pope-francis-calls-corruption-a-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"In book foreword, Pope Francis calls corruption a \u2018cancer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pope_Francis_2_at_the_general_audience_in_St_Peters_Square_April_13_2016_Credit_Daniel_Ibanez_CNA_4_13_16.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|”]\n

Pope Francis at the General Audience in St. Peter\u2019s Square, April 13, 2016. DANIEL IBANEZ\/CNA<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

VATICAN \u2014 Pope Francis, in a foreword to a work by Cardinal Peter Turkson, has said corruption infects the world like a cancer, and the Church must combat it by working together with society, infusing it with mercy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must all work together, Christians, non-Christians, people of all faiths and non-believers, to combat this form of blasphemy, this cancer that weighs our lives,\u201d the Pope wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is urgent to take notice of it, and this is why we need education and a merciful culture, we need cooperation on the part of everyone according to their own possibilities, their talents, their creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hi words on corruption were written in a foreword for Corrosion, a book-length interview of Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, published June 15.<\/p>\n

The interview was conducted by Vittorio V. Alberti, a member of the Cardinal Turkson\u2019s dicastery.<\/p>\n

The book was presented at the Vatican during an \u201cInternational Debate on Corruption.\u201d Italian daily Corriere della Sera published the Pope\u2019s foreword June 14, just ahead of the book\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

Corruption, Francis wrote, in its Italian etymological root, means \u201ca tear, break, decomposition, and disintegration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The life of a human being can be understood in the context of his many relationships: with God, with his neighbor, with creation, the Pope said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis threefold relationship \u2013 in which man\u2019s self-reflection also falls \u2013 gives context and sense to his actions and, in general, to his life,\u201d but these are destroyed by corruption.<\/p>\n

When we respect these relationships we are honest, responsible, and work for the common good. But when corruption enters in, they become torn. \u201cThus, corruption expresses the general form of disordered life of the decayed man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And this has an effect on all of society.<\/p>\n

What, for example, he asked, is at the root of exploitation, degradation, human trafficking, trafficking of weapons and drugs, social injustice, lack of service for people? What is the origin of slavery, unemployment, carelessness for cities, common goods, and nature?<\/p>\n

Corruption \u201cis a profound cultural question that needs to be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in order to address it, we must understand the different forms of corruption, besides merely the political, like those that infect even the average person.<\/p>\n

For example, Francis said, our corruption can be a \u201cspiritual worldliness, tepidness, hypocrisy, triumphalism, to make prevail only the spirit of the world in our lives, a sense of indifference.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the book, Cardinal Turkson explains the ramifications of these different forms of corruption, he continued, focusing in particular on the origins of corruption: which, \u201cin fact, sprouts in the heart of man and can sprout in the heart of all men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are, in fact, all very exposed to the temptation of corruption: even when we think it has been defeated, it can be present again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Turkson explores the different types of corruption, including spiritual, cultural, political, and criminal, as well as the various ways in which they come about and insinuate themselves into our lives. Putting these together, he shows what the Church must do, the Pope said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Church must listen, raise herself and bend herself on the sorrows and hopes of people according to mercy, and must do so without fear of purifying herself, assiduously seeking a way to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHenri de Lubac wrote that the greatest danger for the Church is spiritual worldliness \u2013 therefore corruption \u2013 which is more disastrous than the infamous leprosy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it is with this awareness that we, men and women of the Church, can accompany ourselves and the suffering humanity, especially those most oppressed by the criminal consequences and degradation created by corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

To fight the many ways we may allow corruption into our lives, we must join together, Francis said. On our own we are like individual pieces of snow, both Christians and non-Christians. But united, we can become like an avalanche, he explained: \u201ca strong and constructive movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere is the new humanism, this renaissance, this re-creation against corruption that we can accomplish with prophetic audacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Writing from inside the Vatican, Francis reflected on the ways beauty can transcend sin and corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis beauty is not a cosmetic accessory, but something that puts the human person in the center so that it can lift the head against all injustices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis beauty should marry with justice. Thus we must speak about corruption, denounce evils, understand it, and show the will to affirm mercy for grief, curiosity and creativity for resigned fatigue, beauty for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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