BY Martin Dunlop | November 2 2011 | 
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Pope calls for ‘authentic development’ at G20 meeting
Publication Date: 2011-11-02
Pope Benedict XVI has urged G20 leaders to overcome the difficulties hindering human and integral development, ahead of their meeting this week
The G20 leaders will meet in Cannes tomorrow and Friday to discuss the global economic crisis and Pope Benedict has said that he hopes world leaders can promote development focusing on people.
Speaking at his general audience at the Vatican this morning, the Holy Father said that he hopes the two-day summit ‘will help to overcome the difficulties being experienced at a global level.’
These were difficulties that ‘hinder the promotion of authentically human and integral development’ Pope Benedict said.
The Vatican last week called for radical reform of the world’s financial systems, including the creation of a global political authority to manage the economy while in a 2009 encyclical that focused on economic development, Pope Benedict denounced a profit-at-all-cost mentality as responsible for the global financial meltdown.
At the end of this morning’s general audience, the Pope added that the two-day summit in France should ‘examine the main problems connected with the global economy.’
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