“Time, my brothers and sisters, seems to be running out. 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.”
Francis I
The pope is completely right, of course. Things have reached such a state that the globalist, socialistic solutions he continues to propose will sound reasonable to the unthinking masses.
His United Nations speech should be interesting.