ROME PRESSES WORLD LEADERS FOR ECONOMIC INFLUENCE

Rome Presses World Leaders for Economic Influence. · August 29, 2011

While on his way to the World Youth Day in Madrid, Pope Benedict XVI called for “a new ethical code in global economics.” “The economy doesn’t function with market self-regulation but needs an ethical reason to work for mankind,” the Pope said.

As could be expected, the Pope emphasized the common good over profit. “Man must be at the center of the economy,” he said “and the economy cannot be measured only by maximization of profit but rather according to the common good.” He said “the dignity of the person must be central to all economic decisions.”

The Pope is attempting to position the papacy to be the moral guide of the global economy. As a nation state the Holy See can speak with a geopolitical voice that no other church has the capability of doing. So in promoting the common good, all churches and all religions have no choice but to join with Rome in common cause to promote global economic stability.

King Juan Carlos met the Pope in Madrid and said Spain’s youth are “frustrated by the lack of personal and work possibilities, and rebel against the serious problems facing the world today.”

As Spain wonders after… the papal visit was used to press global economic manipulators, the “merchants of the earth” to use papal principles of ethics in managing global economy. The nice-sounding words were really an appeal for papal influence on the economy.

Speaking of the desolation of Babylon, Revelation 18:23 says that the reason for its punishment is because “thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

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