Archbishop slams 'acquisitiveness'

From The London Daily Standard-

The Archbishop of Canterbury has hit out at the "feverish advertising culture" that fuels "unreal and disproportionate desires" when he joined the Pope for evening prayer in Rome.
Dr Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI together led the service at the Church of San Gregorio Magno al Celio as part of the Archbishop's visit to the Italian capital.

Both church leaders delivered homilies, with Dr Williams saying: "In recent years, we have seen developing a vastly sophisticated system of unreality, created and sustained by acquisitiveness, a set of economic habits in which the needs of actual human beings seem to be almost entirely obscured."

He continued: "We are familiar with a feverish advertising culture in which we are persuaded to develop unreal and disproportionate desires. We are all - Christians and their pastors included - in need of the discipline that purges our vision and restores to us some sense of the truth of our world, even if that can produce the 'torment' of knowing more clearly how much people suffer and how little we can do for them by our unaided labours."

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