Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has said there is no point in Sri Lanka getting loans from the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund if the people who handle those monies continue to be the same fraudsters.
Delivering his homily at the 125th Jubilee Mass, offered in the church, dedicated to St, Joseph at Kaluwarippuwa, Katana, the Cardinal said that developing and rebuilding the nation were not unachievable or an impossible task. “It is very simple,
if we want to develop our motherland, the first step is that we must build our own lives and be very sincere in our dealings. If we are not sincere we will not be able to take the country forward,” he said.
“There was a marked decay in Sri Lankan society as a whole. It seems to be worsening and going down the drain. If we want to develop this country, there has to be a revolution and that is the people must begin to live their lives in accordance with the teachings of the religions that they adhere to and profess,” the Cardinal said.
“We do not become people who really live our religions be erecting statues of the founders of great religions, at every junction in the country, or sporting the religious symbols around their necks,” his Eminence said.
