Pope seeks 'Copernican revolution' for post-COVID economy

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By NICOLE WINFIELD

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged governments on Monday to use the coronavirus crisis as a revolutionary opportunity to create a world that is more economically and environmentally just — and where basic health care is guaranteed for all.

Francis made the appeal in his annual foreign policy address to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, an appointment that was postponed for two weeks after he suffered a bout of sciatica nerve pain that made standing and walking difficult.

Francis urged the governments represented in the Apostolic Palace to contribute to global initiatives to provide vaccines to the poor and to use the pandemic to reset what he said was a sick economic model that exploits the poor and the Earth.

“There is need for a kind of new Copernican revolution that can put the economy at the service of men and women, not vice versa,” he said, referring to the 16th-century paradigm shift that stated the sun was at the center of the universe, not the Earth.



Pope Francis delivers his blessing from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)


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[Marcuse]

1. Giordano Bruno gets ice water.

[spike jones]

2. The Pope is using that reference just to be mean.

Or else he is truly dead inside.

[ananda]

3. What reference?

???

[sandensea]

13. It's a common phrase in Argentina, and much of the Latin world

"Giro copernicano": Put simply, it calls on people to have a more detached, less ego-centric view of the world and its problems.

[Hekate]

14. Thank you!

[sandensea]

15. You bet.

This pope doesn't always see eye to eye with progressives - but compared to his predecessors, what a change he's been.

I remember that when Francis was elected, some right-wing Catholics wished him "a short papacy."

Not very Christian, are they.

[nuxvomica]

4. Interesting that he invokes Copernicus

It's his way of emphasizing that the church is accepting of the scientific method by referencing a time when it wasn't.

[sandensea]

12. +1

High time, too.

[safeinOhio]

5. Good for PaPa Franco.

The best in a long time. Not perfect, but best in a long time.

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. Since at least John XXIII, and that was almost 60 years ago n/t

[safeinOhio]

9. I visited Rome right after he was installed.

Several people told me "the rich people will kill him".

[lonely bird]

6. Good...

Now turn over every priest, bishop, cardinal and anyone else accused of sexual abuse to the state for investigation.

[dalton99a]

7. No shit. A billionaire-centric model is what we have

[ancianita]

10. He and the Church are allies of climate mitigation to keep humanity below 2degreesCelsius.

No matter my baggage with the Church, that's good enough for me.

Climate crises don't care who anyone considers "worthy allies." Neither does covid. One would think lessons learned from one would transfer to the other, or humans will just kill each other off with their righteous "issues," and "baggage" inertia.

[Earthshine2]

11. He wants us to commit 16th century blasphemy.

Best pope ever!

[riversedge]

16. ' he said was a sick economic model that exploits the poor and the Earth. '

The Trump Era certainly fits this model


Francis urged the governments represented in the Apostolic Palace to contribute to global initiatives to provide vaccines to the poor and to use the pandemic to reset what he said was a sick economic model that exploits the poor and the Earth.

https://apnews.com/article/health-foreign-policy-coronavirus-pandemic-pope-francis-economy-750912448e9d134f3f546ffd8642dfd2