Now here’s an interesting news item. It’s about the former Archbishop of Denver, Cardinal Francis Stafford, who is now the head of the Vatican department that handles matters of conscience on issues reserved to the Pope.
His department is called the Tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary. It was created in the 12th century with the essential task of receiving the confession of sins that can only be forgiven directly by the Pope given their gravity, and of granting dispensations and graces reserved to the Supreme Pontiff.
He has called upon bankers to assume their responsibility for having driven the world into economic chaos and apologize! Don’t you love it!
Cardinal Stafford’s words: "Our world is complex. Let us think of the economic world, which is now called global: The sins in this economic and global world are different in their complexity and depth from those in the past. For example, this economic crisis is rooted in the lack of respect, on the part of the world's leaders, for other people. Bankers must assume moral responsibilities and ask God for forgiveness for these complex sins.”
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