Papal Notes - Francis on Babel

"In the first pages of the Bible we find the story of Babel (cf. Gen 11: 1-9), the incomplete city , destined to remain in the memory of humanity as a symbol of confusion and loss, presumption and division, that incapacity for understanding that makes any joint endeavor impossible.

The Bible also closes with a city (cf. Rev 21: 10-27). On the contrary to Babel, the new Jerusalem has the perfume of heaven and recounts a renewed world. Not that this is to be taken for granted: living there remains a gift; one enters there to the extent that one contributes to generating relations of fraternity and communion.

Building this city requires from you not a pretentious upward momentum, but humble, daily grassroots commitment. It is not about raising the tower even higher, but broadening the square, making space, giving to each person the possibility of the realisation of the self and the family, and of opening up to communion with others.

It is meaningful that the Sacred Scripture, to indicate to us the ultimate reality of the universe, resorts to this icon. The image of the city – with the suggestions it inspires – expresses how human society can hold up only when it rests on true solidarity, whereas when jealousy, unfettered ambition and the

spirit of adversity grow, this is condemned to violence and chaos.

To embrace and serve this city, a good and great heart is needed, in which the passion for the common good is conserved. It is this outlook that leads to the grown in the person of the dignity of being citizens. Promoting social justice, and therefore work, services, opportunities. Creating countless initiatives for inhabiting the territory and taking care of it. Educating in co-responsibility. 
To move according to this perspective, we need politics and an economy newly centred on ethics: an ethics of responsibility, relations, community and the environment. Likewise, we need an authentic “we”, in the form of solid and lasting citizenship. We need a politics of welcome and integration, that does not leave at the margins those who arrive in our

territory, but rather that makes efforts to render fruitful the resources that each person bears.........In this way, the city will become a forerunner and reflection of the heavenly Jerusalem." Zenit Sounds like he is rebuilding Babel under the guise of the New Jerusalem...actually he is...he wants to gather everyone into one place spiritually under his worldview (whereas God at Babel spread humans out and separated them)...
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,... Genesis 10:10