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Dr Congo: Archbishop promotes "zero corruption" among youth

The new Catholic archbishop of Kinshasa has invited the youth to opt for a "zero corruption" policy by embracing virtue, reports CISA News.

Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya made this invitation Sunday, during his Palm Sunday homily. It was also World Youth Day. "To opt for virtue is to opt for life and liberty," the prelate said, adding that this option for virtue - or "zero corruption" - must form part of our growing closer to the Lord, ZENIT reported.

He explained his policy of zero corruption: "not taking drugs or marijuana, not giving money to the professor so he wrongly OKs a test or an exam or to pass a class, not giving your bodies to get undeserved good grades on the state exam or for work."

"Zero corruption," the archbishop added, is to reject being those commissioned by evil adults, rejecting prostitution and easy money, not participating in neighborhood conflicts.

Archbishop Monsengwo further denounced adults who submit children or youth to these crimes.

Then, speaking of vocations, the prelate affirmed: "If the Lord tells us that we are the salt of the earth, it is to remind us that our vocation as his disciples is not to 'go bad,' to be corrupted, because our going bad and our corruption has a perverse and disastrous effect on the community." Noting how salt flavors and preserves, he said that the Christian's call to fight corruption is stronger, that is, to neither corrupt others nor to allow oneself to be corrupted.

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