POPE JOHN PAUL ON VALUES
Consumerism can be as soulless as communism: “It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards ‘having’ rather than ‘being’, and which wants to have more, not in order to be more, but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.” By Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus “The Hundredth Year”, 1991
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