"The main thing to highlight about the parable of the rich man is its relevance today; it shows how the story repeats itself today, among us, on two levels: globally and nationally. [...] Two characters, two worlds: the first world and the “third world.” [...] But the same contrast between the rich man and poor Lazarus is repeated, on a different scale, within each of the two groups. There are rich men who live side by side with poor men in Third World countries (here, in fact, their solitary luxury is even more striking, amid the general misery of the masses), and there are poor men who live side by side with rich men in First World countries."
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Raniero Cantalamessa, Gettate le reti. Riflessioni sui vangeli, Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 2001. ISBN 88-384-9498-3. Ch. III, p. 299.
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