Rowan Williams has now come to the podium to talk about the current economic crisis. “As providence would have it,” Rowan says, referring to the publication of Pope Benedict’s own publication on the same topic, Love in Truth, and quotes the Pope. “Truth needs to be sought, found, and express in … charity … and charity needs to be practiced in the light of truth.”<\/p>\n
What we’ve seen in our world in the last six to nine months is a crisis of truthfulness. We have suddenly discovered that we’ve been lying to ourselves, says Rowan Williams.<\/p>\n
In three different ways.<\/p>\n
1. Crisis in Ordinary Truthfulness and Trustworthiness – breakdown in truth telling in our financial world. Now will say openly, a steady and drastic erosion of the mutual values of trust. Our word has not been our bond, we have learned to tolerate high levels of evasion and anti-relational practices….<\/p>\n