Voices
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ter. While there, he continued his
habit of speaking about the poor
and inequality in a powerful, focused way that no world leader of
any kind has for a long time:
No one can remain insensitive
to the inequalities that persist in the world! No amount of
peace-building will be able to
last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society
that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself.
In other words: No justice,
no peace.
PAUL BRANDEIS
RAUSHENBUSH
HUFFINGTON
08.11.13
If more Christians
can speak out the way Pope
Francis and Archbishop
Tutu have last week… it will
change the way people view
Jesus and the faith that he
inspires in so many of us.”
Pope Francis has consistently taken on the injustice in the
world’s financial systems and the
indifference the world has towards the poor and the outcaste.
Noticeably absent from the Pope’s
discourse has been the rights and
dignity of gay people — until last
Monday when the Pope shocked
the world by saying, “Who am I
to judge gay people,” and opened
South African
Archbishop
Desmond
Tutu smiles
during the
Children’s
Peace Prize
ceremony
in the
Netherlands
in 2012.