{"id":2686,"date":"2011-10-24T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/vatican-calls-for-radical-economic-reform-of-worlds-financial-systems.html"},"modified":"2011-10-24T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T09:09:00","slug":"vatican-calls-for-radical-economic-reform-of-worlds-financial-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/vatican-calls-for-radical-economic-reform-of-worlds-financial-systems.html","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Calls For Radical Economic Reform Of World&#8217;s Financial Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: 16px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/202680\/thumbs\/s-VATICAN-large.jpg\">The Vatican called Monday for radical reform of the world\u2019s financial systems, including the creation of a global political authority to manage the economy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">A proposal by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace calls for a new world economic order based on ethics and the \u201cachievement of a universal common good.\u201d It follows Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s 2009 economic encyclical that denounced a profit-at-all-cost mentality as responsible for the global financial meltdown.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">The proposal acknowledges, however, that a \u201clong road still needs to be traveled before arriving at the creation of a public authority with universal jurisdiction\u201d and suggests the reform process begin with the United Nations as a point of reference.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Vatican pronouncements on the economy are meant to guide world leaders as well as the global church. United States Roman Catholic bishops, for example, have released a voter guide for the 2012 election that highlights social concerns such as ending poverty.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-color: initial;border-left-style: none;border-right-style: none;border-top-style: none;border-width: initial;color: black;font-size: 13px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 8px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/10\/24\/vatican-economic-reform-radical_n_1028061.html?1319462724\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican called Monday for radical reform of the world\u2019s financial systems, including the creation of a global political authority to manage the economy. 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