An invitation to "protect low-income families and workers from financial collapse". It was made by mgr. Celestino Migliore, Observer of the Holy See to the UN, who spoke a few days ago at the 46th session of Ecosoc in New York. "The lack of full employment and a decent job, with attendant poverty and social disintegration, offends human dignity", began the Vatican delegate, who highlighted that "the regular cycles of accelerated growth and the creation of employment on one side, and recession and no work on the other side, disrupt relations as well as financial and commercial mechanisms". Hence the need to "push economy to guarantee effective financial support" to those families that cannot make ends meet, not just "for justice or solidarity" but also "as a financial measure to boost national economies and international trade". But all this, specified mgr. Migliore, must be done without the "actual measures aggravating the state of the developing countries". Providing for "a platform for the poor" must actually be, according to the Holy See, a "priority in the financial leaders’ consciences and choices", because the "moral power" of a society is measured against its ability to "cater to its weaker members".
