Growth model divides us and steals our future says pope

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 1 - The current growth model divides us and steals our future, Pope Francis said in his message for Lent 2024.
    Writing on the theme "Through the desert God leads us to freedom", Francis points his finger at "a model of growth that divides us and steals our future".
    It is what he calls "a dominion that makes us exhausted and insensitive.
    "The earth, air and water are polluted by it," he says, "but souls are also contaminated by it.
    "Indeed, although with baptism our liberation has begun, there remains in us an inexplicable longing for slavery.
    "It is like an attraction towards the security of things already seen, to the detriment of freedom". (ANSA).