Papa, worst virus risk: selfishness

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 19 - There is a virus worse than Covid-19: "indifferent selfishness". Pope Francis said so in the homily of the Mass at Santo Spirito in Sassia. "Mercy does not abandon those who are left behind. Now, while we are thinking of a slow and tiring recovery from the pandemic, this danger insinuates itself: forgetting who is left behind. The risk is that it affects an even worse virus, that of selfishness indifferent. from the idea that the better if it is better for me, that everything will be fine if it is good for me ". The coronavirus pandemic can be an opportunity to "heal injustices" and "remove inequalities". In the race to resume the post-emergency, the risk is in fact to "select people, reject poor people, immolate those who are behind on the altar of progress.
   However, this pandemic reminds us - the pontiff pointed out - that there are no differences and boundaries between those who suffer. We are all fragile, all the same, all precious ".