Listen to the poorest, says Vatican cardinal

October 27, 2014

The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace said in an October 24 address that “both as Church and as societies, we must learn to include the excluded” who come from the world’s poorest nations.

“What is essential is first to listen humbly: not only to the sufferings, but also to the expectations, hopes and proposals which the marginalized themselves have,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson. “They must be protagonists of their own lives, and not simply passive recipients of the charity or plans of others. They must be protagonists of the needed economic and social, political, and cultural changes.”

Cardinal Turkson made his remarks three days before the beginning of the World Meeting of Popular Movements, an event sponsored by the pontifical council.

 

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Further information:

• World Meeting of Popular Movements presented by Card Turkson (Vatican Radio)