Pope calls for new economic order, criticises pursuit of money
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
POPE Francis on Thursday urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a "new colonialism" by agencies that impose austerity programmes and calling for the poor to have the "sacred rights" of labour, lodging and land.
In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope also asked forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the "so-called con…
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