Pope Francisco in Spanish press interview: “Economic systems should centre on humans, not on making money”
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 @ 1:19 PM
AN EXCLUSIVE interview given to a Catalunya regional newspaper by Pope Francisco calls for a complete overhaul of the current economic system, says society is too busy 'worshipping money' to care about its people, and shows he is dead against the area's independence from Spain.
“The secession of a nation without a previous history of forced union is something that should be analysed carefully from every angle,” the Pontiff stated in the interview in La Vanguardia.
He was referring to Scotland as well as Catalunya when he said: “Any division worries me,” and added that there is a great difference between 'independence through emancipation' and 'independence through secession'.
The former, the Pope explained, include the American countries which gained independence from their European colonisers – such as his own native land, Argentina – but the latter, for which he uses the former Yugoslav republic as an example, lead to 'fragmentation' which 'at times is very obvious'.
“Clearly, there are communities with such diverse cultures that not even glue would bind them together – the Yugoslavia case is very much like this, but I wonder if it is so in other communities which have always been together until now,” Pope Francisco commented.
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