Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Thursday that financial speculation and corruption were keeping millions of people in hunger and the financial crisis could not be used as an alibi for failing to help the poor.
The speech was the latest in a series of criticisms by the Argentinean pontiff, the first Latin American pope, of what he has called "the dictatorship of the economy" and the spread of consumerist values.
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