Amid anti-corruption protests in Indonesia, bishops and priests have spoken of the need for the Church to assume a prophetic but apolitical role.
The bishops’ “concerns include corruption, inequality, and the fragility of public ethics, the deterioration of the quality of democracy, and the risk that public policies may be oriented more toward the interests of elites than the common good,” the Vatican newspaper reported.
“Christian prophecy—the bishops observe—does not consist in taking the place of politics, but in reminding politics of its ultimate goal: service to the individual and the community, and the courage to denounce whatever wounds human dignity, corruption, injustice, inequality, the abuse of power, and indifference toward the most vulnerable,” the article added.