NEWSMAX: … “Today, the scientific community realizes what the poor have long told us: harm, perhaps irreversible harm, is being done to the ecosystem. The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished,” the Pope said.
“And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called ‘the dung of the devil,'” Pope Francis argued. “An unfettered pursuit of money rules.”
“The service of the common good is left behind. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home,” the leader of the Roman Catholic Church said… (more)
EDITOR: Instead of serving democracy, capitalism is often allowed to ignore the needs and will of the people. We see it here in Lancaster. We see it worldwide.
