“If the gap between rich and poor becomes too great, it is also a threat to society itself,” he stated. “Justice and the equitable distribution of income and goods are a real basis for understanding between peoples and peace in the world.”
The cardinal noted that even if the word “saviour” is not longer used often, the deep conviction that change is possible lives on, in spite everything, in every human being, believer or not. “We are rather on our guard each time that any leader or an ideology claims to be a solution to all our problems,” he said. “But at the same time, it is a word we do not manage to forget because, deep within ourselves lives a very strong desire, one we often do not even express, for something or someone who can really save us.”
It is not possible for poverty and injustice, war and violence, hate and lack of love to be the forces that continue to dominate everything, Cardinal De Kesel stressed. “‘Today a Saviour is born unto you’, that is the message is Christmas; a saviour who delivers us above all from indifference and self-sufficiency.”
Christopher Vincent
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