Rising inflation risks being a hidden
tax that hits the poor hardest, the head of the Italy's Bishops
Conference (CEI), Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, said opening the
permanent episcopal conference in Rome on Monday.
"Growing inflation is arousing a lot of social alarm also
because, if it is not contained within physiological limits, it
can become a hidden ad unfair form of taxation that strikes
above all middle-to-low incomes, the most exposed to the
increase in consumer prices," CEI President Bassetti said.
He also said the CEI was praying that, in the ongoing election
of an Italian president, parliament should "hark the desire for
unity" coming from the country.
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