"When the Vatican proclaimed that it supported worldwide protests against economic inequalities, it was mindful of another scene that had unfolded around the first millennium in Europe. But first, the Catholic Church's Justice and Peace Department announced that businesses and state economies should always lead to the welfare and good of the people. While decreeing that people should demand a more equitable economic and social order, one that protests unemployment, homelessness and food shortages, the Catholic Church also issued a statement saying the economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the bases of social coexistence. But how powerful and effective are such Church decrees, and do people really care about sacred judgments?"
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