2011-10-27 13:43:41

Card Ravasi: Grafting ethics onto a world economy led by India and China


(October 27, 2011) An international colloquium on “Towards a Strong Global Economic System: Revealing the Logic of Gratuitousness in the Market Economy” is underway in India under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and Christ University. It was held at Bangalore, Southern India’s Karnataka State from 25 to 29 October. The purpose is to give the Indian Church, which is already involved in the socio-cultural field, an opportunity to reflect on the world’s development in relation to the need to respect human dignity. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture in his message mentioned of the vast economic development that is underway around the planet. Asian countries like India and China are now taking the lead in the big economic boom. While progress has brought development and improvement in the living conditions of the people, it has also propped up new challenges like globalisation, increasing social injustice, dehumanising exploitation and materialism. The Church in India already much involved in the socio-cultural field also has to face the cultural challenges of the fast changing economic scene. Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Nuncio to India, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, President of the Indian Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, who represents the Dalit community, and Fr Theodore Mascarenhas, head of the Department for the Cultures in Asia, Africa and Oceania, are among those who are participating in the seminar.








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