From a social point of view, according to the Holy Father, “gluttony is perhaps the most dangerous vice that is destroying the planet. Because the sin of those who give in to a piece of cake, after all, does not cause great harm, but the voracity with which we have unleashed ourselves, for a few centuries, towards the goods of the planet, is compromising the future of all.
“We have rushed forward, above all, to become owners of everything, when everything had been consigned to our custody, not to our foundation,” he stated.
According to Pope Francis, the great sin is “the fury of the belly: we have renounced the name of men, to assume another, ‘consumers’.”
“We didn’t even realize that someone had started calling us that. We were made to be ‘eucharistic’ men and women, capable of giving thanks, discreet in the use of the land, and instead the danger is of becoming predators, and now we are realizing that this form of ‘gluttony’ “He has done a lot of damage to the world.”