Hope for FreedomI turned to another subject, "As you look at the world, do you see any emerging hope for people who love freedom to have a better world — a world where people are eating every day and have a place to sleep? Do you see emerging possibilities? Is life getting better or worse?" "I think that while I am not a pessimist — I don’t want to be a pessimist — I don’t see any solution," the Archbishop answered. "Only God could send us a solution. Only God, because I don’t see much from the people." "If you don’t see any immediate solution or any long-range solution," I persisted, "have you a clear view of what the problem is? Why is it that we can’t find a solution? What is the main problem, as you see it?" "The problem is the corruption," Archbishop Clavel replied. "It’s not really the ideas, the philosophies that communists are fighting for this and the democrats are fighting for that. There is the same problem in the capitalist countries as in the communist countries — materialism. Everything is resolved by money, by business. All the exploitation today is by business. Everything is business. And they are destroying the children, the youth, the women — abusing and taking the women as instruments of sex. So that is why the corruption here in the democratic countries and the corruption in the communist countries is the same — the materialism of life. So, the solution is to come back from materialism." |
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