French traditionalist abbot resorts to fearmongering on universal basic income, says it would lead to “apocalypse”

French traditionalist abbot resorts to fearmongering on universal basic income, says it would lead to “apocalypse”

A French traditionalist abbot has resorted to fearmongering on the universal basic income (UBI), saying it would lead to an “apocalypse”.

Dom Louis-Marie de Geyer d’Orth, the abbot of the Abbey of Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux in Provence, made the remarks in a May 1 sermon on the feast of St. Joseph the Worker.

Referring to the Pope’s Easter proposal of a “universal basic wage” , de Geyer d’Orth criticised the “utopians” who “have bounced back on the question, on this subject, raving about a ‘universal income’”, which he warned “would… consist of paying a sum of money to everyone, with no […]

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