tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657042621577447711.post2595322980240072964..comments2024-01-02T11:22:27.624+01:00Comments on VIS news - Holy See Press Office: JEWS AND CATHOLICS: THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF MORAL VALUESVIS - Holy See Press Officehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00864309219040519020noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657042621577447711.post-28158860046577550212012-04-02T11:28:17.485+02:002012-04-02T11:28:17.485+02:00The reasoning here is far to conventional and secu...The reasoning here is far to conventional and secular.<br />The world is in economic crisis because the entire economic order has been operating on a grave error. The error is that the value of fresh air, clean water, animal and plant food and clothing materials are not factored into the equation but treated as free and of unlimited supply.<br />All oil and coal, all oxygen and soil, all mineral resources are finite and essentially non-renewable from scratch.<br />The Church has a mission, to seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit on how to act and preach and teach the answer to the faithful who must put it into practice. The institutions of the Church must do this too and so exemplify this to the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657042621577447711.post-62397808792771788012012-04-02T02:15:57.286+02:002012-04-02T02:15:57.286+02:00All the above comment takes for granted the moral ...All the above comment takes for granted the moral legitimacy of the current economic behaviour of the majority of the human race, most businesses and most groups and of all lands, nations and countries.<br />This current behaviour fails to factor in the actual cost to the earth consisting of current living occupants and descendants until the third or fourth generation, of using the oxygen, water, food and fibre newly generated by sunlight as well as the finite quantity of accumulated resources of oil, gas, coal, uranium, thorium, biologically generated fertiliser and the like as well as the cost of cleaning up the garbage and pollution necessarily or carelessly generated by living and participating in all said economies as currently practised.<br />As it has done in the past, we need the Church as a matter of urgency to seek the wisdom and guidance of the Holy Spirit about this morally defective behaviour and implore guidance and direction for proper reform, first of our Christian selves and then of our Christian institutions so that we may, by being Charismatically institutional, leaven the lump of the secular world.<br />Dr Phillip A Chalmers <br />Australia<br />drchalmers@netscape.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com