Pope Francis warns against 'politics of fear' - Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis warns against 'politics of fear' - Independent Catholic News: Pope Francis warned against 'the politics of fear' on Saturday evening during his address to the Third World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican. The event brings together organizations of people on the margins of society, including the poor, the unemployed and those who have lost their agricultural land. ... this fear 'is fed and manipulated... Because fear - as well as being a good deal for the merchants of arms and death - weakens and destabilizes us, destroys our psychological and spiritual defenses, numbs us to the suffering of others, and in the end it makes us cruel.'