鈥淲e will not exit from it (COVID-19) better if we fall back into the temptation of individualism, whether personal or collective, often expressed in the form of political nationalisms and narrow economic interests,鈥� the Canadian cardinal told students and faculty at the Jesuit university.
Quoting extensively from Pope Francis鈥� recent encyclical Fratelli Tutti and the Pope鱿鱼视频app Wednesday audiences, Czerny lays out a moral framework for a COVID recovery.
鈥淭he prescription offered by Pope Francis unleashes the 鈥榓ntibodies of justice, charity and solidarity,鈥欌�夆�� Czerny said.
The response to the great unknowns of the post-pandemic world falls on our collective duties in political, economic, social and cultural life.
鈥淲e must reject the ruinous ideologies of indifference, invisibility and individualism,鈥� Czerny said. 鈥淲e must not foster divisions. We must not be hypocrites. We must reject an economic model based on greed, zeal for profit and instant gratification. We must put people first, rejecting purely technocratic solutions.鈥�
Czerny emphasized the Pope鱿鱼视频app teaching against narrow nationalism and go-it-alone economics.
鈥淚ndividual states acting alone cannot implement adequate solutions,鈥� he said.
As a Jesuit, Czerny turned to the words of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Now is the time 鈥渢o give and not to count the cost,鈥� he said.
鈥淲hat Pope Francis teaches, especially in Fratelli Tutti, gives us a moral road map to emerge strong, less fearful and more human.鈥�
Czerny emphasized the ways in which COVID-19 has exposed divisions, flaws and widespread suffering that had been growing long before the pandemic.
鈥淭he pandemic appeared in a particular context,鈥� he said. 鈥淥ne of widespread injustice, inequality and assaults on our common home.鈥�
Though there鱿鱼视频app nothing new to Catholic social teaching in Czerny鱿鱼视频app speech, it sets out a clearly global perspective that should be heeded by the Church in Canada, said University of Sudbury systematic theologian Christopher Duncanson-Hales.
鈥淔or the Canadian Church it鱿鱼视频app a warning against falling back into individualism, either as individuals or as nations,鈥� he said.
In presenting Pope Francis鈥� teaching, Czerny forces important questions to the surface, said Regina archdiocesan theologian Brett Salkeld.
鈥淲e could start with sin and say, 鈥榃hat failed? Where does the system fail? What鱿鱼视频app wrong with our politics, with our social cohesion?鈥欌�夆�� Salkeld said.
By paying attention to who suffers during COVID lockdowns we can see more clearly the moral shape of the world, said Salkeld.
鈥淗ere鱿鱼视频app a chance to see clearly,鈥� he said. 鈥淎nd we can take the opportunity to see clearly because this tragedy shows us things that are hard to see, or that we don鈥檛 like to see. But now it鱿鱼视频app right in front of our face.鈥�