Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (11 October 1948 –) is a Ghanaian prelate of the Catholic Church.
Quotes
[edit]- The story of my vocation is very simple. Maybe every priestly vocation comes out of an apparently trivial reason, but then grows and clarifies in the seminary. A vocation is a bit like the starter mechanism of a car, the spark that starts the engine.
- We want to leverage the objectives of business—not only profit and monetary gain—but also the transformational value that it brings to society—making life better, worth living, equitable, and inclusive. I remain optimistic about the potential for positive transformation.
- As quoted in Francesca Merlo and Mario Galgano, Cardinal Turkson at Davos: Business should foster economic solidarity, Vatican News (January 18, 2024)
- In terms of training or the competence of the personnel, we try to work together with other organizations like Caritas, which typically has competent staff. In local churches, there are also other bodies. As for resources, we sometimes receive funding from here, under the castle. But we also receive support from other entities with philanthropic objectives that are ready to commit funds and resources to this development. Cross Catholic Outreach falls into that category; they can raise funds and support various development initiatives. So far, they have done an excellent job. I have recently come to know them, although some have known them better from their past relationship with the dicastery. We have found them to be dependable, beneficial and supportive benefactors of some of these projects aimed at promoting the development of people. They help support those in need, whether by assisting with facilities, providing food or promoting agricultural development.
- As quoted in Fr. Dave Caron, Interview With Cardinal Peter Turkson (March 15, 2024)
- there are several countries in Africa which are guilty of abusive use and treatment of the gift of Creation. Over and above the bizarre instances of citizens from African countries accepting monies from European countries to provide dumping grounds in their own countries for industrial toxic waste, the greatest abuse and misuse of the environment are registered in the areas of extractive industries, such as mining and drilling for oil, and lumbering.
- Human life, indeed, cannot do without the minerals and metals which only mining can produce. Paradoxically, however, mining is also an activity which gravely threatens human existence, denuding lands and stripping the earth bare of the organic and vegetal cover which supports the growth of life-sustaining food. Chemicals that are used in the extraction of some minerals are so toxic that their contamination of water bodies also poison various life forms on which human life depends. In the case of oil drilling, it is the oil itself which contaminates the environment and renders it lifeless.
- Uncontrolled lumbering is not only a disrespect of the earth; it also threatens all life forms by breaking the hydrological cycle and by increasingly diminishing the earth's water supply.
- From an interview of Mario Ponzi, L'Osservatore Romano (March 10., 2010), p. 5. As quoted in Interview with Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
