ROME -- At a meeting of the International Association of Criminal Law, the new Argentine Pope, Francis, in the course of a speech centering on how crime impacts the Church's mission of evangelicalism and promotion of humanity, He told his audience, "The scandalous concentration of global riches is possibly caused by the connivance between political power and other strong powers, especially that afforded by money. Corruption itself is a process of death and worse than a sin. It is an ill that, more than forgive it, it must be cured." At the same time, the Pope also reminded his audience of the need to adopt legal and political instruments that don't fall prey to the 'mythological logic of the scapegoat', by which he means, according to several interpreters, that individuals are accused unjustly of the ills that befall a community and are therefore sacrificed with jail terms, say, or even death.
