Declare a jubilee: Pandemic is time to forgive debts, cardinal suggests

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Could the coronavirus-19 crisis lead to a jubilee?" Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle wondered out loud during a Mass livestreamed from the Pontifical Philippine College in Rome.

Preaching March 29 about the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, Cardinal Tagle looked at a variety of ways people can be in "tombs" and in need of light, fresh air and new life.

Looking specifically at the coronavirus pandemic, Cardinal Tagle, president of Caritas Internationalis and prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, pointed out how people are losing their jobs, "especially the daily wage earners, and that lack of resources and that poverty could be one tomb right now for many poor people."

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That is not a bad idea.

But I don't really owe any money.

 

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But I don't really owe any money.

Same as here.

Everything paid off and only paying utility bills, insurances and taxes....
... and food...
... and clothes...
... and refreshments...
... and rum...