Vatican City, May. 24, 2005 (CNA) - The Vatican announced today that it will hold an international summit aimed at understanding moral factors in globalization from May 27th to 28th.
The meeting, called ‘The World System in the 21st Century: Subsidiarity and Cooperation for Development’, is being sponsored by the Centesimus Annus "Pro Pontifice" Foundation, which was instituted by Pope John Paul in June 1993.
Read the complete article Globalization and Christian morality: Vatican to hold summit from Catholic News Agency.
An acquaintance of mine once made the point that globalization has failed only insofar as it leaves out certain places (the Middle East, Africa) that in turn serve as breeding grounds for the disaffection and fundamentalization of the local populations.
In a certain sense this is true, but the opposite has also occurred. Globalization has left in its wake scorched earth where culture has been razed to the ground and replaced with the seeds of global consumerism, etc. I don't need to recapitulate all the arguments made by the Holy Father and his illustrious predecessor over the years.
During the last Conclave, the general thought was that the new Pope was going to either be a man who was going to deal with modern issues (secularism, the culture of death) or a man who was going to deal with the Third World (poverty, disease, social justice). If Benedict XVI is going to truly make his mark, he is going to have to be able to reach out and find a strategy for combatting the effects of both too much globalization and not enough globalization.
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