This week’s column concludes the discussion of inequality and poverty in Guyana. It focuses on the moral and ethical aspects of these phenomena. And with that in mind the quotation in the title is none other than Pope Francis’ famous tweet sent earlier this year to Roman Catholics. Readers may well already know that the tweet has swept the world by storm, heartening and also enraging citizens everywhere because it has been viewed by most as both a blunt rejection of the status quo and a stirring appeal for social justice and equity.
I am not a Roman Catholic and even though I realize many readers would have already known about the tweet, I have discovered from internet searches it is sourced to the Pope’s Evangeli Gaudiam, published in 2013. In my opinion that 2013 document is easily the finest piece of writing I have ever come across on the subjects of inequality, equity and social justice. I therefore strongly recommend it to readers.
The worst in the best of us
The 2013 document emphasizes that inequality breeds the worst in the best of us.
