The Pope’s call to these financial giants was to usher in radical changes to our economies. Take a look at the economic policies that Pope Francis is imposing upon the world’s international financial systems. They come directly out of Laudato Si’:
“Nor can we overlook another kind of debt: the “ecological debt” that exists especially between the global north and south. We are, in fact, in debt to nature itself, as well as the people and countries affected by human-induced ecological degradation and biodiversity loss. In this regard, I believe that the financial industry, which is distinguished by its great creativity, will prove capable of developing agile mechanisms for calculating this ecological debt, so that developed countries can pay it, not only by significantly limiting their consumption of non-renewable energy or by assisting poorer countries to enact policies and programmes of sustainable development, but also by covering the costs of the innovation required for that purpose (cf. Laudato Si’, 51-52).
A debt to nature? A mechanism to mitigate the climate crisis? Sustainable development policies? These are the fundamental principles outlined in Laudato Si’ and this is the solution that the Pope offers to the global banking industries. Then Pope Francis pushed his second papal encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, during the virtual meeting:
“The pandemic, however, has reminded us once again that no one is saved alone. If we are to come out of this situation as a better, more humane and solidary world, new and creative forms of social, political and economic participation must be devised, sensitive to the voice of the poor and committed to including them in the building of our common future.” (cf. Fratelli Tutti, 169). [1]
Prophecy has described that this very scene would take place during the last days:
The stage is being set for the final act of the drama." AdventMessenger“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:3.