The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their d…

Pope Francis
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The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away. ✨ Pope Francis (2016). Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion, p.35, Orbis Books
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