Sir, – According to recent reports we are about to exit the bail out. But I question if this is so. Some years ago, Pope Francis, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, stated: “The economic and social crisis, and the consequent increase in poverty, has its causes in policies inspired by those forms of neoliberalism that consider profits and the laws of the market as absolute parameters, to the detriment of the dignity of people and nations”.
Unfortunately, this kind of analysis has not been mentioned in recent times in Ireland. We would benefit if this would be taken seriously. Let us not be deceived by the illusion that everything will be okay when it is business as usual. – Yours, etc,
Padre LIAM HAYES, SVD,
Calle Sagrado Corazón de
Jesús,
Oberá, Misiones, Argentina.