The French bishops are concerned about the worldwide financial crisis. In a release published this morning, the Council for Family and Social Questions of the French Bishops Conference gives the alarm: "our societies are upset. And, as usual, in these circumstances, it is the poorer ones who are the first innocent victims". The release signed by six bishops who are members of the Council – reads: "The crisis reveals that there are negative consequences if the financial logics pushed to the extreme are disjointed from economy and their sole purpose is to look for instant profit". "This crisis add the bishops spurs all of us to question ourselves on our lifestyles, on our relation with money, on our way of making our savings bear interest and relying on borrowing". The French bishops hail "the efforts" that have been made over the last few days by the governments and political leaders" to solve the worldwide financial crisis, but they also state that "it is essential that the proposed measures have a different goal, not just that of maintaining a financial system that has turned out to be weak". (continued)
