Pope Francis Quotes About Autonomy

• The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Imbalance, Common, Financial

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.36, Orbis Books

• While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.

  Pope Francis

  Exercise, Minorities, Growing

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Long, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium Of the Holy Father Francis". Apostolic Exhortation, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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