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Audience of 杏MAP导航 Francis with Members of Italy's National Usury Council in the Clementime Hall Audience of 杏MAP导航 Francis with Members of Italy's National Usury Council in the Clementime Hall 

杏MAP导航 Francis thanks Italy's Anti-Usury Council

杏MAP导航 Francis wrote to Italy’s National Anti-Usury Council. In the letter which was released today, he thanks them for the gift they gave him on the occasion of the papal audience of 3 February 2018.

By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp

Immediately after his audience with members of Italy’s National Anti-Usury Council, 杏MAP导航 Frances wrote a letter to them. In it, he acknowledges and thanks them for their “generous charitable gesture” which he says he “directed to brothers and sisters deprived of human dignity: they are, in fact, the Kingdom of Heaven’s most secure bank.”

The Council is a precious yeast in society


He also reiterates that we are living in extremely difficult times in which corruption manifests itself everywhere. 杏MAP导航 Francis asks the Council to continue offering their services on behalf of the victims of usury “so that every persons feels they are being heard and can be guided out of the spiral of exclusion and iniquity.” This help, the 杏MAP导航 says, “is a precious yeast for the whole of society.”

Activities of the Council


The Holy Father met with members of the Anti-Usury Council on 3 February 2018. This Council provides both a social and pastoral activity throughout the dioceses of Italy. They seek to help families who have been the victims of usury or who have incurred excessive debt. Other ways they combat what they define as a “common social plague” are establishing anti-usury foundations where needed, uniting people who understand the problem and want to combat it, and by keeping the issue in the public eye by bringing it before both civil and church institutions, and the mass media.

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22 February 2018, 12:19