We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.
— Pope Francis Contemporary

Current Pope, reformist

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Evangelii Gaudium, Apostolic Exhortation

Date / Period

2013

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Shocking

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https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-fr…

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