Official: Catholics need new perspective on migrants

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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 3, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Globalization is not just about economics; it is also about the human person, and thus challenges us to a “radical change in perspective,” says one Vatican official.
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Archbishop Antonio Vegliò, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, spoke of this challenge today when he announced the upcoming conference hosted by this dicastery.
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The archbishop said the risk today is for the discussion on globalization to be seen “almost exclusively with reference to the economic-financial sphere, characterized by the amount of international aid and the degree of trade liberalization.”
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“But,” he said, “we know, as Christians, that life’s core is fundamentally spiritual and that the challenge is how to promote and safeguard every human person, preferring the most vulnerable, precisely people like, among others, migrants and refugees.”
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Read more: zenit.org/article-27426?l=english
 
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