Pope Francis has blasted employers who do not provide healthcare as bloodsucking leeches and he also took aim at the popular “theology of prosperity” in a pointed sermon on the dangers of wealth on Thursday (May 19).
Referring to businesses that hire employees on part-time contracts so they don’t have to provide health and pension benefits, Francis said that was akin to sucking the blood from their workers’ veins, leaving them “to eat air.”
“Those who do that are true leeches, and they live by spilling the blood of the people who they make slaves of labor,” the pontiff said at morning Mass in the chapel of the Vatican guest house where he lives.
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