Pope Francis told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today (May 9, 2014) that the world body must do more to help the poor, and should encourage the "legitimate redistribution" of wealth, according to the Yahoo News website.
Francis -- who since his election last year has often called for significant changes to economic systems -- made his comments in an address to Ban and heads of many UN agencies meeting in Rome.
"In the case of global political and economic organization, much more needs to be achieved, since an important part of humanity does not share in the benefits of progress and is in fact relegated to the status of second-class citizens," Francis said.
Francis -- an Argentine -- is the first non-European pope in 1,300 years and is the first-ever Latin American pontiff. He has consistently used his meetings with world leaders -- including U.S. President Barack Obama in March -- to champion the cause of the world's poor people.
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