The death of Pope Francis mobilized me to read his texts in search of reflection on power, mediocre and bankers. People say curiosity is the first degree to hell. I am not afraid because, as Shakespeare wrote, “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
I began searching with the apostolic exhortation “Evangelia Gaudium. On preaching the Gospel in the modern world" (2013). Then, I reached for the papal encyclicals “Laudato si”. For the sake of a common home (2015) and ‘Fratelli tutti. About fraternity and social friendship”(2020). I finished analyzing the text "Dilexit Nose. About the Love of the Human and Divine Heart of Jesus Christ" (2024).
O the poor
Francis wrote about the situation and needs of the mediocre for years, many times and aptly. A fistful of quotes:
(1)
"Until the problems of mediocre people are resolved radically, giving up absolute marketplace autonomy and financial speculation and undermining the structural causes of imbalances, the problems of the planet and yet no problem will be solved.
The imbalance is the root of social diseases’;
(2) "The marketplace itself does not solve everything, although sometimes they want us to believe in this doctrine of neoliberal faith. This is simply a poor, recurring way of reasoning that always offers the same prescriptions in the face of all challenges. Neoliberalism replicates itself by resorting to the magic explanation of “redistribution” or “grabbing” — without explicitly calling it — as the only way to solve social problems. He does not see that the alleged redistribution does not solve the inequality which is the origin of fresh forms of force threatening social tissue’;
(3) "This planet has a serious social debt to the mediocre who do not have access to drinking water due to the fact that it is denying them the right to live rooted in their inalienable dignity";
(4) "It is essential that the rulers and financial authorities rise their eyesight and broaden their prospects to guarantee that decent work, education and wellness care are available to all citizens";
(5) "He accuses the force of the mediocre and the poorest of the population, but without equal chances various forms of aggression and war will find fertile dirt that will lead to an detonation sooner or later";
(6) ‘Some simply satisfy themselves, blaming the mediocre and mediocre countries for their own hard problems by applying inappropriate generalizations, and intending to find a solution in “education” that would calm them and turn them into tame and harmless beings’;
(7) Saving banks at all costs, at the expense of society, without the determination to revise and transform the full system, confirms the absolute regulation of specified financial systems as do not have a future and are only capable of generating fresh crises after long, costly and apparent treatment. The 2007–08 financial crisis was an chance to make a new, more ethically delicate economy and fresh regulation of speculative financial activity and virtual wealth. But there was no reaction to it that would lead to a reflection on the inactive ruling planet of outdated criteria."
The diagnosis is correct, but what if solutions are amazingly inadequate to the scale of the problems and challenges facing our world.
Who benefits from this?
Unfortunately, reading the texts of Pope Francis, I did not find out who, specifically, by name, benefits from the fact that the number of mediocre avalanches is increasing. Which authority has a business here?
(I mean real power, not the façade we know from mainstream media headlines.) In the Pope's texts, I found a number of generalities, eloquent slogans and impersonal terms. They use: “financial speculation”, “people”, “system”.
Three examples:
"Financial speculation, whose primary nonsubjective is easy profit, continues to wreak havoc".
"While the profits of fewer people are rising beyond expectations, the majority are moving further distant from the welfare of this happy minority. This kind of imbalance comes from ideology defending absolute marketplace autonomy and financial speculation."
"Today everything is bought and paid for everything, and the very meaning of dignity seems to depend on the things that can be obtained through the power of money. We are only being pushed to gather, consume and entertain, trapped by a humiliating strategy that does not let us to look beyond our immediate and petty needs."
Who are these speculators? Which people, specifically, are gaining? Who created this strategy and made certain it doesn't change?
No response. A reading full of clichés we all know.
I realize that, being the head of the Vatican State, 1 must "diplomatically" decision on a geopolitical chessboard. However, examples are known erstwhile Francis, while remaining faithful to values and principles that were crucial to him, courageously spoke, for example erstwhile he said that “Barking at the door of Russia by NATO” may have been 1 of the possible reasons for the attack on Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s attitude.
Fight against usury
Let's go back to the poor. How much can we lament their destiny and not identify the 1 causing the epidemic of poverty, and who benefits in particular? At the end of your life, erstwhile it is clear that in a minute Miss Death will come after us, you can yet hit the table and say a fewer words of truth. No diplomacy, no circular words. Maybe, yes:
First of all, mediocre people don't fall from the sky. Their situation is frequently the consequence of the activities of circumstantial bankers whose lust for power and possession knows no limits. Bankers who, with real power, origin financial crises, initiate/concentrate wars and influence political decisions of governments, as sovereign states. Bankers from large bankers with names, among others: Barclays, Baring , Bischoffsheim, Bleichröder (Blaichroder), Botin, Brown, Cabot, Goldman Sachs, Guggenheim, Harriman, Kuhn, Lehman, Mellon, Morgan, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Schiff, Stern (Stern), Warburg.
Secondly, the problems of the mediocre come from the fact that money, literally, comes out of nothing, by the method of the "table cover yourself", which the Grimm brothers wrote about.
This is due to the global money creation system, which is guarded by the national Reserve strategy (Fed) of the United States and the Swiss Bank of global Settlements. And this defender is accompanied, shoulder to shoulder, 4th power, or media. The planet of large media favors the planet of large banks.
Thirdly, banks are no longer public trust institutions. Banks are private, commercial companies that put their own profits first. And the large banks, out of unbridled greed and power, strive for this profit over the dead. People's dead bodies, which he showed 2008 crisiswith nearly 13,000 people in 24 EU countries, Canada and the United States took their own lives. The case was investigated by scientists from Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Fourthly,
The fight against usury should be 1 of the priorities of the Church. "Nothing is more shameful and cruel than usury," wrote Jan Chrysostom.
I agree with the saint. It begs us to return to the thought of the Pious Banks and start spreading them, utilizing Vatican infrastructure and resources. (How many faithful of the Church have heard of the banks of the pious? Do priests teach them in spiritual classes, mention them during sermons?)
Fifth, large banks request to be dismantled in a controlled and regulated way. due to the fact that their next abrupt fall will be a disaster for billions of people. A financial earthquake on which only the richest will benefit as usual. "Banks should be tiny adequate to fall safely. Activities between which there are fundamental conflicts of interest cannot be carried out by the same bank. Reduce complexity and introduce individual responsibility," says Joris Luyendijk, in an interview “This cannot be true. From the life of bankers” for the civilian Affairs Week. Nothing to add, nothing to say.
Jesus sets an example
"The full life of Jesus, His way of treating the poor, His gestures, His consequence, His regular simple self-sacrifice, and yet His complete surrender of himself as a ransom—all this is precious and appeals to the life of everyone," observes Pope Francis. Yeah, he's talking to my life, too. In particular, it speaks of how Jesus treated the merchants doing business in the temple.
“The time of the judaic Passover was near, and Jesus went to Jerusalem. At the temple, he met the bankers behind the tables and those who sold oxen, lambs, and pigeons. And he drew up a whip of strings, and drove them all out of the temple, and lambs and oxen, and scattered the coins of the bankers, and turned the tables over. To those who sold doves, he said, “Take it from here, and do not make my Father’s home a marketplace place!” (Jn 2: 13–16).
Why did Pope Francis not take the example from Jesus and drive greedy bankers out of planet economics at the end of his life? I don't know, but he wasn't the first 1 to take the glove. possibly you request to look for reasons in a Vatican bank, known as the Institute of spiritual Works (IDR). Did he gotta number on the interest groups that benefited from this bank? “For centuries it has been 1 of the most mysterious institutions in the world. This banking paradise over Tiber, like the full global banking system, has been subjected to the same pathologies, depravities, scandals and common thieving," writes about IDR Janusz Szewczak in his book "Banksters. Cuisies of global collusion". In 2013, the Pope intended to liquidate the Institute of spiritual Works. It ended with his "reform". It is worth noting here that in May 2013, the Board of the Association for planet Interbank Financial Communications (SWIFT) excluded the Vatican bank for a month, from the global SWIFT system. The SWIFT Board of Directors at the time represented the following banks: HSBC, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas. You can read a lot about these banks breaking the law. I encourage you to read but not before bedtime.
What Pope do we need?
I would dream of a pope who would follow in Jesus' footsteps, not only preaching the Good News, but besides willing to expel merchants from our temples. 1 who throws the gauntlet to bankers who, with the approval of politicians, in the glare of media, have made us and our families, for generations, slaves. The Pope, who will tell believers about the scenes and mechanisms of the global financial agreement. The fact that the banking community is not a "fifth power" but a "power first". Power unelected in the “democratic” elections. The Pope, who will usage Vatican resources to prepare, together with experts from various fields (not only economists!), alternatives to the current banking system. The Pope, who would be the catalyst for the creation of a global lobby of average citizens, for the implementation of monetary reform, regulation and social control of banks.
We request a pope, a radical, who, like Jesus, will drive greedy bankers from our temple, or our life.
We request a extremist on economical issues, due to the fact that they have a fundamental impact on our lives, under all latitude.
And perhaps, if the Holy Spirit were to decide in fact, we would have the chance to have specified a pope. But people, already active in various systems, who will not hazard a proverbial nail to the cross, like their Teacher.
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Tracks into the rabbit hole:
- Shewczak Janusz, Banksters. Global collusions, Kraków, White Raven, 2016.
The book's motto was made by George Orwell's words: "Telling the fact in the age of lie is simply a revolutionary act." Shewczak writes how it is, without circular words and diplomacy. And that's rare. I can number on the fingers of 1 person, recognisable in the Polish public debate, who have the courage to talk aloud what you will find in this book.
- Piketty Thomas, Capital in the 21st century, Warsaw, Political Criticism, 2015.
The French economist rightly advises that we citizens should "take a serious interest in money, its measurement, its facts and changes around it." due to the fact that “those who have quite a few it do not forget to defend their interests.” 750 pages of arguments that aid defend the interests of Poles and Poles, in discussions with bankers.
- Griffin G. Edward, A financial monster from Jekyll Island. actual past of the national Reserve, Wrocław, Wydawnictwo Vectory, 2012.
In the book you will find a multidimensional, and in-depth cognition of how the cartel of large banks created a modern money creation system. Griffin did a Benedictine work on quotes and sources. "Let me emit and control national money, and I will not care who is the law," said Mayer Amscheld Rothschild, of the bankers' family, who became celebrated for their ability to affect governments in the wars on which she made her fortunes. The lesson extends the angle of looking at the causes of wars, e.g. 1 in Ukraine.
- Swindle: Crisis Anatomy (Inside Job) (2010), dir. Charles Ferguson
There is no better paper on the 2008 crisis. Bankers corrupting politicians, experts and journalists. The movie was awarded an Oscar for 2010, in the full-length documentary category.
- Zeitgeist – Money rules the world (2008), Yeah. Peter Joseph
"Of all the institutions that guide and condition our conduct, no are considered to be as apparent as the monetary system, although it is completely illogical. He has become a circumstantial religion, fewer dare to question him. People don't know how to make money, they don't see the political mechanisms of this process, or the impact it has on society. In a planet where 1% of the population has 40% of the earth's resources, all day more than 30,000 children die from hunger and disease, and half of the planet's inhabitants live for little than 5 zlotys a day, 1 thing seems certain: something is incorrect here. Money is the foundation of all institutions and society itself. Without knowing the rules governing the monetary system, we cannot realize why the planet looks like this and not otherwise. Unfortunately, most of us find economics boring and incomprehensible. The professional jargon and complex calculations discourage this discipline. This complex shell is just camouflage and serves to hide the structures most paralyzing society." In the movie he speaks, among others. John Perkins, erstwhile economist for dirty work.
