Cultura i societat

End-of-Year Reflection

As we conclude 2018, menacing clouds hang over our democracies. The globalization of authoritarianism appears to be suffocating our hopes for progressively more humane societies. Are we able to believe that, despite the dark shadows, the sun is still there?

We take leave of the year 2016 with a long list of unresolved problems, to which new ruptures keep getting added. The pain keeps increasing, and the deaths of so many “saints Innocents” threaten to eclipse whatever hopes are engendered by the “birth” of many initiatives of solidarity. Those of us at Cristianisme i Justícia want to make a plea for dialogue and debate so as to keep from advancing toward the precipice. For, despite all the evidence, our faith in humanity and in what is most sacred therein encourages us to believe that we can help to turn the tide.

This is the end-of-year reflection elaborated by Cristianisme i Justícia. In the text we point out both the points we consider most worrisome in the present economic and political situation and some of the hopeful signs that should help us overcome these difficult circumstances. Faced with the danger of moving toward a “scenario of even greater poverty and inequality,” we feel an urgent need to seek out more just ways of organizing society.