More of this, please – we hear far too much about the pope’s moral pronouncements, and everyone else’s too little.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will urge people to treasure children and respect others during the economic downturn in his annual new year message.
Dr Rowan Williams will say it is important to “take children seriously” and focus less on “material wealth”.
He will call on people to question public policies and ask how they will benefit the young and most vulnerable.
(BBC News, “Archbishop urges values rethink”)
Though even better than liberal church heads would be secular philosophers. I wish the anglophone world were more like France, where the top philosophy professors are public intellectuals, sought after by reporters for moral comment. (Or so I hear.)
