In spite of having been raised as a Catholic, I do not always agree with the position of the Church or of its highest leader, the Pope.
I disagree on his position on contraception, as an example, and I think that the Church must return back to the people, if it want to survive in the XXI century. In spite of this, I think that today the Pope has really catched the point. With all these tremendous news from Wall Street, with the bank system panicking and loosing so many money, the Pope has reminded us all of what really matters: not the material things.
He said ”He who builds only on visible and tangible things like success, career and money, he builds the house of his life on sand”.”We are now seeing, in the collapse of major banks, that money vanishes, it is nothing’ ”All these things that appear to be real are in fact secondary. Only God’s words are a solid reality”
Whatever is your faith or believe, these are word full of sense. In my opinion the great emptiness in modern man and society is almost completely due to false values we believe in. We have forgotten what is important and what is not and the word of the Pope should be a strong reason to stop a while and to think about on which ground we are building our lives on.

