New sins, new virtues

July 9, 2009
The Economist

As the world heats up and economic dislocation ravages the poor, religious leaders offer up their diagnoses and prescriptions

GLOBALISATION, technology and growth are in themselves neither positive or negative; they are whatever humanity makes of them. Summed up like that, the central message of a keenly awaited papal pronouncement on the social and economic woes of the world may sound like a statement of the obvious.