is pop to serve or to rule? i belive pop is to servbe not to rule

                             yesterday, as pop lead the audience ,                                                                                                                                                         
money is to serve  and not  to rule. he siad to the ambassadors in the first major speech about finance since he was last elected  in March in which he also urged states to take vase  control of their economies and protect the weakest.

the crisis of the economy,  had created fear and desperation, terminates the  joy of life and increased violence and poverty as more people struggled to get by in "undignified" ways, the pope commented.
There was  need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone.  he said.. We have created new idols. just imagine., continue reading.....


The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal, he said.
The reference was to the Book of Exodus in the bible, when the Israelites worshipped a golden calf while Moses was at the top of Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments.
While Francis' predecessor Benedict also called for changes in economic systems, he did so in often  intellectual language, which hard to get.


pop Francis seemed to be expressing very personal views forged from his experience with the poor in Latin America.pop Francis, who has said he wants the 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church to defend the poor, urged more state control over economies, in the country

While the income of a minority is increasing rapidly, , that of the majority is crumbling, he said.
This  results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to states, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good," he said.


talking of financial markets he said, "A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules.
In many cases, the value of people was judged by their ability to consume, he added. The pope's comments add to growing expressions of concern about a global economic malaise that has left millions out of work or hanging on to insecure, short-term jobs.

Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, said his pontificate would side with the poor on social and economic issues.
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