Pope Francis: Addresses Mandate to Care for Refugees, Children, and the Poor/Abused/Enslaved Members of our World

“Before all else, I would restate my conviction that a world economic system that discards men, women and children because they are no longer considered useful or productive according to criteria drawn from the world of business or other organizations, is unacceptable, because it is inhumane.  This lack of concern for persons is a sign of regression and dehumanization in any political or economic system.  Those who cause or allow others to be discarded – whether refugees, children who are abused or enslaved, or the poor who die on our streets in cold weather – become themselves like soulless machines.  For they implicitly accept the principle that they too, sooner or later, will be discarded, when they no longer prove useful to a society that has made mammon, the god of money, the centre of its attention.”

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/01/14/pope_francis_address_to_global_foundation_roundtable/1285625