condemns global financial system as "self-centered, short-sighted, and lacking concern for the poor"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1093914/Pope-brands-global-financial-self-centred-short-sighted-lacking-concern-poor.html

Maybe in this Pope there is hope for mankind.

Think it was his upbringing that got his head at least part way outta his rear?

For a group of people who proclaim theirs is a spirtual kingdom, I am in fucking awe at the amount of material they collect.

The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.

The Vatican's treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country.



How the Vatican Rolls (http://www.chick.com/reading/books/153/153_10.asp)
:o

For a group of people who proclaim theirs is a spirtual kingdom, I am in fucking awe at the amount of material they collect.

And you think they buy their own bullshit? Ha!