From the same gang of geniuses who gave us the clerical abuse crisis comes the latest plan to fix the world's troubles.
Right, they haven't cleaned up their own house but that doesn't stop the Vatican from chiming in on how to solve the world's economic problems.
The Vatican's department of Justice and Peace has called for a world authority to run everyone's finances. Just like the Catholic Church has one Pope in charge, so too would all the banks and financial institutions be beholden to one central planning committee that would levy taxes on transactions and use the income to make the world a better place.
We all know how well that centralized system has worked for the Holy See.
As you'd expect from the Vatican, the plan berates neo-liberalism and markets and all the other bogeymen that have been called out as the cause of Catholics fleeing from the Church. If you've sat through a few sermons in your lifetime, you'll recognize the oft-repeated litany that accuses us all of greed and hoarding wealth, causing so much unhappiness. Buy more black babies. Donate to the missions until it hurts. Help propagate the faith with your coin.
The poor you have always with you, and whensoever you will, you may do them good.
No, don't pay attention to that bit. Jesus gets in the way sometimes, doesn't he.
And everyone would start going to church of a Sunday and putting some money in the collection basket. The settlements from all the lawsuits brought by abused children is going to bankrupt the Church if the financial picture doesn't improve.
Somehow, it's laughable that the Holy See would develop a global economic plan when it has a long string of failures in its record. Back when the faithful didn't pay much heed to the Pope, he declared that he was infallible and that was the end of dissension.
Wouldn't the world be a better place if the United Nations was running the world's financial markets and they could just speak Ex Cathedra?
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