Though it's scary to agree with this Pope so often...this one isn't his quote...

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114. Pope Francis: "Today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion

and inequality. Such an economy kills."

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/pope-francis-holds-capitalism-to-account-29908368.html


UNFETTERED global capitalism has met its match at last. Ever since Bishop Bergoglio picked St Francis of Assisi to be his guiding inspiration in leading a "church for the poor", all his actions have been in the same direction.

Liberation Theology is taking over the Vatican a quarter of a century after John-Paul II systematically sought to stamp out the "singular heresy" in the radical parishes and dioceses of Latin America, a task carried out with dutiful efficiency by Cardinal Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The "preferential option for the poor" is back. The doctrine that so inflamed controversy in the Seventies and 1980, famously wedded to Nicaragua's Sandinista cause, now has a papal imprimatur. It is close to becoming official doctrine for the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics under "Evangelii Gaudium", the Pope's first apostolic exhortation. This will have consequences.

"While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by the happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and fin-ancial speculation," Pope Francis says.