If the pope were to be truthful, he would have to remind these leading Jewish bankers about the Old Testament prophets’ edicts about such predatory practices. The pontiff would have to tell the richest ethnicity in the world that the laws of Moses forbade them from loaning money and charging interest (Ex. 22:25). He would have to remind the Jewish bankers that according to Leviticus 25:36,37, there shall be no creditor and no taker of interest. The pope would have to remind them that Ezekiel condemns their practices as a heinous sin (Ezekiel 18:8, 13, 17). Pope Francis would have to tell Janice Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve, that Nehemiah (5:7,10) prohibited rich Jews from lending to others and exacting heavy interest. Although these were strictly prohibited practices, the Jews ignored the mandates of the prophets and exploited the poor by establishing the world’s largest banking conglomerate.
The Pope’s demand for a new banking system would make him a formidable enemy of the Goldmans and the Sachses, the Loebs, the Lehmans, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Lazards, and the Seifs. His attempts to abolish and replace such a wicked system would also earn for him the cover of the New York Times as the “world’s leading anti-Semite.”
Therefore, the pope’s call for an end to unbridled capitalism—which he admits has ushered in an era of “new colonialism”—will fall on deaf ears. His characterization of the unfettered pursuit of money as the “dung of the devil” sounds good and excites the downtrodden in Latin America, but it does nothing to move the rich Jewish families that control the world’s financial system to eradicate the poverty that they created.