It appears the Pope’s a commie.
With all due respect, Your Holiness, as a Catholic in good standing, um, your expertise is faith and morals. It would be more helpful to teach, preach and write regarding how those who are money people can most morally go about their jobs in a free market with laws to protect property owners (just like Pope Leo XIII wrote in the 19th century). Without a global gold standard, anything else is just not going to treat money as anything more than a commodity no matter who is in charge.
Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
http://www.radiovaticana.org/EN1/Articolo.asp?c=531752
bump for later read
Interesting, this. According to Malachy’s prophecies, this Pope will help to set the church on the road to being part of the one world government/church of the end times.
A document entitled “For a reform of the financial system through the perspective of a public authority with universal competence” will be presented on Monday by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
The council’s head, Ghanaian cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, will present it, the Vatican press office said without adding further details.
Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly called for an “intervention” by governments to tame financial markets and has emphasized the need to restore a fragile global economic system that is hurting poorest people the hardest.
"...in the end, the final answer to the question of "So is the Pope above criticism? Is he infallible?" is "Shut up and kiss the ring." No one is permitted to question the Vicar of Christ's guidance. If he says that- food and the access to water are a universal right of all humans,as he did in his recent encyclical Caritas in veritate, you'll be expected to step aside and let the centralists and socialists take over. Your eternal salvation is in jeopardy if you don't go along with whatever he says, whenever he says it."
- abandoning mechanisms of wealth redistribution will hinder the achievement of lasting development
- technologically advanced societies can and must lower their domestic energy consumption
- labor unions should expand their influence over those outside their membership, and beyond national boundaries,
- a reform of the United Nations Organization is necessary, likewise a reform of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the "family of nations" can acquire real teeth.
-- Alex Murphy, August 21, 2009
Big, big mistake. Any problems in the current system would be made 1,000 times worse by creating a global central bank.
Something tells me that this article is NOT accurate.
Who is depicted on the coin?
Pretty rich coming from the entity that’s amassed the wealth contained in the Vatican Museums.....
Gotta agree with him on this.
Yes, I seem to recall Jesus talking about this very thing. I think he wanted Peter to run it.
“For a reform of the financial system through the perspective of a public authority with universal competence”
Part of Global World Order? For whom does the Pope really work? Mmmm
This does not appear to be teaching on the subjects of Faith or Morals and is therefore subject to error.
Positioning themselves as the overall supreme authority! Hmmm.
Toward the end of document comes the heart and soul of what is being proposed.
“In a world on its way to rapid globalization, the reference to a world Authority becomes the only horizon compatible with the new realities of our time and the needs of humankind. However, it should not be forgotten that this development, given wounded human nature, will not come about without anguish and suffering.”
A world Authority established by force. The Kingdom of God established by the U.N. with what role for the Vatican? Whose “anguish and suffering”?
Doesn't sound like a 'global financial authority' is what he's talking about, just governments doing the job in each of their countries so that the entire system doesn't break down.