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ANSA) - Vatican City, October 6 - The international cash crisis has shown that the foundations of the financial system were shaky, Pope Benedict XVI said Monday.
Taking his cue from a famous Bible parable on false prophets, the pope said: ''He who builds only on visible and tangible things like success, career and money, he builds the house of his life on sand''.
''We are now seeing, in the collapse of major banks, that money vanishes, it is nothing,'' the pope said at a televised Bible reading.
''All these things that appear to be real are in fact secondary. Only God's words are a solid reality''.
Msgr Claudia Maria Celli, head of the Vatican's culture department, told reporters the Catholic Church doesn't have solutions to the crisis because they would be outside its remit.
He said the Church's reflection on financial crises ''has just started''. But he stressed the significance of the pope's words, saying ''the economy is a penultimate reality, however important is is''.
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