Vatican calls for global authority on economy

I absolutely do not want the church anywhere near the economy.

Church actually ran a small surplus last year, it never runs the same extreme debts that you see the US get. But no I don't think the Church itself intends on being a global economic authority itself. It probably would want said authority to act with Catholic morality in mind though—compassion toward the poor in particular. Fat chance of that happening, ever.

This is clearly the Antichrist at work.

^ The Catholic Church has never really been fond of the whole, "Antichrist" thing.

He next addressed himself to a person who had just come from

haranguing a numerous assembly for a whole hour on the subject of

charity. The orator, squinting at him under his broadbrimmed hat,

asked him sternly, what brought him thither and whether he was for the

good old cause?

"Sir," said Candide, in a submissive manner, "I conceive there can

be no effect without a cause; everything is necessarily concatenated

and arranged for the best. It was necessary that I should be

banished from the presence of Miss Cunegund; that I should

afterwards run the gauntlet; and it is necessary I should beg my

bread, till I am able to get it. All this could not have been

otherwise."

"Hark ye, friend," said the orator, "do you hold the Pope to be

Antichrist?"

"Truly, I never heard anything about it," said Candide, "but whether

he is or not, I am in want of something to eat."

"Thou deservest not to eat or to drink," replied the orator,

"wretch, monster, that thou art! hence! avoid my sight, nor ever

come near me again while thou livest."

The orator's wife happened to put her head out of the window at that

instant, when, seeing a man who doubted whether the Pope was

Antichrist, she discharged upon his head a utensil full of water. Good

heavens, to what excess does religious zeal transport womankind!

^^ This is why they won't be raptured away to heaven when Jesus returns!