Appropriate in the circumstances today, I think.
It is easy in difficult times to call upon others to make sacrifices.
It is another thing entirely to make those sacrifices yourself and thus empathise with the people who have to heed your call to make sacrifices. You should be among the first in line to follow such an action.
Anything else is hypocrisy.
And if you call upon those with the least to make sacrifices so that others (including yourself) can increase the plenty that they already have available to them, it is the most disgusting form of hypocrisy going.
That should be remembered.
It scarcely behoves me, an atheist, to praise the actions of a leading Catholic, but the actions and statements of the new Pope with regard to the poorest members of society should set the example, not be the exception.
Unfortunately, in some quarters at least, more praise will be lavished upon those who expected others to be the suckers who were forced into making sacrifices while making none themselves.
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