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Excerpts From Chapter 2 I. SOME CHALLENGES OF TODAY'S WORLD

..."humanity is experiencing a turning-point...from advances....which has led to new and often anonymous kinds of power"

"Today everything comes under laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless"

"Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded."

"trickle-down theories..never confirmed by facts express a crude and naïve trust in goodness of those wielding economic power"

"The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money"

"The worldwide crisis..lays bare ..lack of real concern for human beings;man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption"

"While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity"

"..ideologies reject the right of states, to exercise any control. A new tyranny is thus born which ..imposes its own laws.."

"corruption and self-serving tax evasion, take on worldwide dimensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits."

"this system devours everything..in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless"

"Ethics has come to be viewed with a certain scornful derision. It is seen as counterproductive..."

"Money must serve, not rule! The Pope..is obliged.. to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor."

"I exhort you to generous solidarity and the return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favors human beings"

"humanity is experiencing a turning-point in its history..This epochal change..has led to new.. often anonymous kinds of power"