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- Title
Sin Can Be Forgiven, But Not Corruption.
- Authors
BERGOGLIO, JORGE MARIO; FRANCIS, POPE
- Abstract
In 1991 the extent of corruption in society was revealed by certain events in Argentina said to include outrageous attempts by authorities to whitewash a murder because of associations with local politicians. This led the then Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires to write first an article, then a short book (Jorge Mario Bergoglio [Pope Francis], Corrupción y pecado: Algunas reflexiones em torno al tema de la corrupción [Corruption and Sin: Reflections on the Theme of Corruption] Buenos Aires, 2005), in which he described the nature of corruption and corrupt people. He stressed the fact that corruption was worse than any sin because it hardened people's hearts against a sense of guilt and prevented them from asking for forgiveness. He related the social and individual aspects of corruption to examples and parables from the gospels and to Jesus' reported words on the subject, defined corruption not only in general but in religious circles, and suggested means of eradicating it. He decided to reissue the article as a book because corruption had become so widespread that people tended to accept it as normal, even though it leads in the end to personal and social collapse.
- Subjects
CORRUPTION -- Social aspects; RELIGION &; ethics; SIN; FORGIVENESS; ETHICS
- Publication
Concilium (00105236), 2015, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0010-5236
- Publication type
Article