He said
some countries had a youth unemployment rate of more than 50 per cent, with
many millions in Europe seeking work in vain.
'It's
madness,' the Pope said in an interview with 'La Vanguardia's Vatican
correspondent, Henrique Cymerman.
'We discard
a whole generation to maintain an economic system that no longer endures, a
system that to survive has to make war, as the big empires have always done,'
he said.
'But since
we cannot wage the third world war, we make regional wars.
'And what
does that mean? That we make and sell arms. And with that, the balance sheets
of the idolatrous economies - the big world economies that sacrifice man at the
feet of the idol of money - are obviously cleaned up.'
Pope
Francis says there is enough food to feed all the world's hungry.
'When you
see photographs of malnourished children you put your head in your hands, you
cannot understand it,' he said. 'I think we are in a global economic system
that is not good.'
Pope
Francis also said he prefers not to use the 'sardine can' Popemobile which
walls him off from the people, CNN reports.
'It's true
that anything could happen, but let's face it, at my age I don't have much to
lose,' he told Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia in an interview published
Friday and reported on in English by Vatican Radio.
'I know
that something could happen to me, but it's in the hands of God.'
Since an
assassination attempt on then-Pope John Paul II in 1981, the head of the Church
has customarily used a custom-made, glass-sided Popemobile when in public.
But Francis
has taken his own approach to transport since assuming the Papacy last year.
On a trip
to Brazil, he climbed into a silver hatchback Fiat for the drive from the
airport to downtown Rio de Janeiro. Along the route, the vehicle became pinned
between a bus and a crush of well-wishers reaching into the car to touch the
Pope. Security was stepped up after that incident.
La Vanguardia
Pope Francis has slammed Europe's youth unemployment rate as economic 'madness' in an interview with a Spanish newspaper, writes the ABC.
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