Pope Francis on the "god of Money"

[Martinius]

Here is another excerpt from the Pope's interview with journalists on his flight back from Africa. He is answering a question about the injustices and evidence of greed and corruption he observed and heard about in Africa. He pulls no punches. To me, it echoes passages from the Gospels.

There's an economic system where money is at the center, the god of money...If things continue like this, then the world will continue like this...Idolatry is when a man or woman loses their identity card for being a child of God, and prefers to look for a god according to their own measure. That's the beginning. If mankind does not change we will continue to have more miseries, tragedies, wars, children who die of hunger, of injustice. What does one think of those who have 80 percent of the world's wealth in their hands? And this is not communism. This is the truth. But the truth is not easy to see.

http://www.romereports.com/2015/11/...ope-s-press-conference-aboard-the-papal-plane