Cardinal O'Brien also expressed support for a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions.
Now there is much that is wrong with the policies of the coalition government but it seems particularly amusing for the Catholic church to be lecturing the Tory party on economic morality.
It is time that the Catholic church, along with all other religious bodies, paid their fair share of tax as international corporations. The churches avoid and evade paying tax on their annual profits which run to billions of pounds each year.
The Catholic church uses large amounts of donations, given to support the world's poorest and most vulnerable, to, instead, support senior clergy in affluent lifestyles and, of course, to cover up the many child abuse cases that have rocked the church.
The Papacy, with its own state, is a tax haven, and is one of the most offensive places on earth for displaying wealth - and all the while their priests preach about fairness and equality.
As for the "Robin Hood" tax - this clearly demonstrates that the church is acting without conscience, and the Cardinal speaks without morality. Most people agree that the banks and other financial institutions have acted illegally, but, instead of stopping these bad practises and bringing things back to fair, just and legal, the "Robin Hood" tax merely taxes the illegal activity. It makes the state complicit in the wrongful acts.
Jesus, had he existed, would have been a communist. The Pope is no different from a Ceaușescu or Louis XVI.
It is time or the Catholic church to look at itself in the mirror - a disgraced organisation, harbouring paedophiles, giving senior clerics a life of luxury while ordinary people suffer, with policies on contraception that have caused the deaths of hundreds if nous ands worldwide, and with a disposable tax record - before criticising others.
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