Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics not to delay the pursuit of their faith while also cautioning them about succumbing to the indignities of more aggressive forms of capitalism during his Wednesday General Audience.
He was speaking about the parable on the labourers in the vineyard that Jesus gives in the Gospel of Matthew, when the landowner hires people at different hours of the day but still gives them all the same wages.
“The metaphor of the marketplace is very appropriate for our times,” the Pope says, “because the market is the place of business, where unfortunately even affection and dignity are bought and sold, in the attempt to earn something. And when we do not feel appreciated, acknowledged, we risk selling ourselves to the first bidder.”
