Press Release -Cassola reactions to Pope Francis’s speech

Cassola today said “Papa Francesco: the greatest political speech delivered in independent Malta. This is what he told us in plain and simple words:

“Remove illegality and corruption

We need transparency

You must safeguard the environment. Stop the greedy developers who are eating up the beauty of nature.

Progress should not be at the expense of tradition.

Memory is important. We need memory to safeguard our traditions.

Progress should not be greed for money.

Safeguard the dignity of workers, youth and sick from the illness of modern consumerism.

We cannot make use of anachronistic pushbacks.

We must show solidarity with migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean.

We must show humanity towards migrants…as was shown towards St. Paul.

We must not build walls against migrants. We cannot be cold and indifferent.

We must fight greedy nationalisms and populism that lead to tragic wars.

We must fight infantile autocracies and dictatorships.

We have to fight injustice and famine.

We are thirsty for peace. We need peace.

We must go for weapon disarmament and the money must be invested in developing countries”.

    Let us hope that our politicians and building developers have learnt something from this papal speech, that has touched upon many of the problems of our country.”