I have just been sent a priceless gem. Labour has always had its fair share of Roman Catholic voters. A lot of that is down to the Irish vote and Labour’s support of a United Ireland.
But, it was nice to see that John Cruddas MP and the former Pope are together on many issues.
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QUIZ: 4 excerpts form the most recent speeches of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and Labour policy review coordinator Jon Cruddas MP – can you work out which is which?
1. … the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism.
2. One of the social rights and duties most under threat today is the right to work.
3. This has subordinated a story of human agency to questions of administrative and price efficiency
4. We have to earn each other’s respect and that must be part of belonging.
5. …the various cultures in our day overcome forms of anthropology and ethics based on technical and practical suppositions which are merely subjectivistic and pragmatic..
6. The predominant model of recent decades called for seeking maximum profit and consumption, on the basis of an individualistic and selfish mindset
7. …these same concerns capture a very real process at work in terms of economic and social rupture, of loss and grievance; of globalisation and epochal change
8. The stakes are high because when hope is not reasonable despair becomes real.
Answers
1= The Pope, 2= The Pope, 3= Jon Cruddas 4= Jon Cruddas, 5= The Pope, 6= The Pope, 7= Jon Cruddas, 8= Jon Cruddas