Our meal will be accompanied by wine. Now, wine is many things. It has bouquet, colour and richness of taste that all complement the food. It has alcohol that can enliven the mind. Wine enriches all our senses.
At the end of our feast, we will have grappa. Grappa is one thing: alcohol. Grappa is wine distilled.
Humanity is many things — passionate, curious, rational, altruistic, creative, self-interested.
But the market is one thing: self interest. The market is humanity distilled.
Then he challenged us:
Your job is to turn grappa back into wine, to turn the market back into humanity,
This isn’t theology. This is reality. This is the truth.
Pope Francis (1936-2025)
Cited by Mark Carney in his book VALUE (S)
Building a Better World for All
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