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Pope Francis challenges the free market
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Pope Francis leads a Good Friday service on April 18, 2014.
Heather Long
April 19, 2014: 10:21 AM ET
Pope Francis stunned the world last Easter when he broke with the usual Holy Week traditions.
He washed the feet of women and two Muslims and delivered an Easter day message calling for not just the usual world peace, but "peace in the whole world, still divided by greed looking for easy gain."
At that point Francis was mere weeks into his tenure as head of the Catholic Church, but these were early signs of what has become a central theme in his papacy: fighting inequality.
He doesn't just call on people to help the poor, he often calls out the current economic world order.
http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2014/04/19/pope-francis-free-market/