Zenit reports Pope Benedict XVI in a Feb. 26 meeting with parish priests of Rome, urged them to speak out “against avarice on a large scale, and forming justice in the hearts of all people.”
He addressed a pastor’s question about how to help people deal with the present economic crisis. On the level of macroeconomics, [...]

Catholic News Service reports the global economic crisis has contributed to a delay in Pope Benedict XVI’s new social encyclical, “not for financial reasons, but because the crisis has demonstrated how important and how complicated the topic is.”
If the encyclical “does not deal competently with the economic reality, it cannot be credible,” Pope Benedict said Feb. [...]