He interviewed Card. Cardinal Turkson has answered Edward Stourton questions. We invite you to listen to the Podcasts ad also to read the complete interview transcripted below. Cardinal Turkson The setting up of the commission was occasioned by the incidence of this Covid.
And what we hope to achieve is to present, and then to express, the Church's presence and accompaniment of humanity going through this crisis, this tough moment in history. And so we created five working groups to follow this Covid in different aspects.
First is to establish the Vatican's contact and connection with local churches all over the world, listen to their experiences, are they coping? Then there is a second group which is trying to figure out the future and the post-Covid world. And as the Holy Father has invited us to do, it's not just to think about recovery, or going back to some form of normality, but it's to generate a new future.
To see, you know, where the present system, having been brought down to its knees by the Covid can be strengthened in the way that it will be more robust, in the way that it will be more sustainable, in the way that it can help humanity just achieve a world of, you know, integral growth and development. And then recognising that the Vatican is a state, we also explore how the Vatican as a state can relate with other states in the area of advocacy so that we can just help all of humanity come out of this crisis together.
How realistic do you think it is that you can rewrite the rules of the world in that way? Cardinal Turkson No, we're not, we're not going to rewrite the rules. But for us as a Church, as Christians and all of that, we've always got the lead of the Scriptures.
So, yes, it's challenging, but everybody is talking about generating a new future. It's just that the details of this new future, in the context of the great uncertainties that we're dealing with now, is not clear to anybody.
We want to derive some inspiration from Scripture and try to suggest new trajectories or pathways where humanity can come out because, you know, this pandemic is revealing certain values in society that are worth recalling, reliving, and returning to.
I suppose the big difference this time is that this pandemic has hit the developed world very hard, including, of course, very much the United States. How do you think that changes the kind of impact that it's likely to have in political terms? Cardinal Turkson Yes, the big pandemic, I suppose you may be referring to, may be that of Ebola and Ebola is similar to this Covid in the way of its infection contagiousness and all, but also radically different.
Ebola was essentially regional — three countries in West Africa, including that of DRC, Congo; the rest of the world was free. So there was a world that one could cry to and ask for help from and there was a world that could come to the aid of these three countries in their need. And it was possible to manage it very, very easily and very quickly. A leading Vatican official, Cardinal Turkson seeks to awaken the senses of all people to live in communion as children of God.
His discussion of finding common ground with the marginalized is sure to resonate at this time in our country and our world. There is no Gospel for Americans. A Vatican cardinal intervened in an online discussion of racism on Friday to warn that a lack of welcome in Cardinal Peter Turkson on Wednesday decried the existence of racism around the world, urging people to seek justice and fraternity, Cardinal Peter Turkson sent a message Wednesday encouraging Catholics to see the sacrifices required to slow the spread of coronavirus Cardinal Peter Turkson said Monday that the ordination of married men will likely be the subject of further study for The prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development urged prayers Sunday for seafarers, fishermen, and maritime workers, by Cardinal Peter Turkson issued a message for World Autism Awareness Day urging faith communities to have meaningful encounters with those Cardinal Peter Turkson.
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