[Salvation]

**Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said November 20 that the Pope was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system, referring to a “prophecy” in a paper Benedict wrote when he was a cardinal. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict in April 2005…

Ratzinger in 1985 presented a paper entitled “Market Economy and Ethics” at a Rome event dedicated to the Church and the economy. He said a decline in ethics “can actually cause the laws of the market to collapse.”**

Pope Benedict is no stranger to economics.

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[Desdemona]

Bottom line: market economies must be guided by moral and ethical decisions. Same thing said by every pope since Leo XIII and proven by all of written history - every government, including republics, that has succumbed to corruption has fallen.

[investigateworld]

Oh I'm quite certain the man means well ....