Jose V. Romero
Pope Francis has introduced another commandment—“thou shall not introduce an economy of exclusion and inequality”. He describes this economy as one that kills, alienates and marginalizes people who are condemned to unemployment and resulting poverty. Living in this exclusive economy, those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are, he emphasizes, no longer even part of it - they are not the exploited but the outcasts and “leftovers.”