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Article: A 'sneak peek' at new economic encyclical.(WORLD)(insights about the encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI )
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 20, 2009
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Effectively stealing some thunder from his own forthcoming encyclical on social themes, Pope Benedict XVI insisted last month that underneath the current global economic crisis lurks greed, rooted in original sin, and that reform of global economic architecture will be of little use without the conversion of individual hearts.
"Where there are no just people, there is no justice," Benedict said. "For that reason, education in justice must be a priority--perhaps we could say, 'the' priority.... Good structures can't be developed if they're opposed by egoism, including that of people of great technical competence,"
The comments came in a Feb. 26 Q-and-A ...