And Now… Pope Proposes New Financial World Order Guided by Ethics
July 7th, 2009Via: AP:
Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for the common good in the third encyclical of his pontificate.
In “Charity in Truth,” Benedict denounced the profit-at-all-cost mentality of the globalized economy and lamented that greed had brought about the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
“Profit is useful if it serves as a means toward an end,” he wrote. “Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty.”
The document, in the works for two years and repeatedly delayed to incorporate the fallout from the crisis, was released one day before leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet to coordinate efforts to deal with the global meltdown.
The release was clearly designed to give world leaders a strong moral imperative to correct errors of the past, “which wreaked such havoc on the real economy,” and make a more socially just and responsible world financial order.
“The economy needs ethics in order to function correctly — not any ethics, but an ethics which is people centered,” he wrote.
People learn through pain; if we become more ethical in our business dealings, it will be because we found our current not-especially-ethical ways more painful. But I don’t think we’re quite there yet.
So His Holiness is pulling the Roman Catholic Church’s huge investments in most of the world major for-profit corporations, or he’s counting on the power of prayer to sway these corporations to what? add a new Department of Soul? because corporations should not live by bread alone? A revolutionary concept! A corporation with a conscience, a corporation with a love of truth, beauty, courage, generosity, forgiveness! Ahem, sorry to disturb you, popesy, but the alarm is ringing. Time to get up. Oh, you’re already up? Your speech was just more of the same hot air your kind spews as a matter of course to keep the beggars from revolting? Praise the Lord!
If this “ethical proposal” has been in the works for TWO FREAKING YEARS I imagine El Popo has been watching the price of gold. You know, that freaking VAULT he is entrusted with.
PFHHHT. What a joke. Ethical business dealings (my mouth is switching between total dryness and spittle spewing from my lips).
Not allow birth control or condoms but then NOT HAVE ANY KIND OF PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE BEING KILLED, STARVING, or DECREPIT ONCE THEY ARE BORN.
El Popo must have his red shoes. Must have those red shoes. This whole Catholic holier than thou pomposity fetish schick makes me sick.
Not schick but shcicht.