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• catholics are always good with this issue. 7-22-2013 12:18am
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• Pope Francis: "While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling. This imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute...(more) 7-22-2013 12:20am
  autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good."

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  • "A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules. Moreover, indebtedness and credit distance...(more) 7-22-2013 12:23am
    distance countries from their real economy and citizens from their real buying power." 

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    • "Added to this, as if it were needed, is widespread corruption and selfish fiscal evasion which have taken on worldwide dimensions. The will to power and of possession has become...(more) 7-22-2013 12:23am
      limitless."

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  • "The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces people to one of their needs...(more) 7-22-2013 12:25am
    alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away. We have begun a throw-away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted!". http://www.oblates.org/dsw/dswblog/

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