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Caption: This photo taken in 1936 at a pea-pickers camp in California is among the iconic images from the Great Depression. Part of the
This photo taken in 1936 at a pea-pickers camp in California is among the iconic images from the Great Depression. Part of the "Migrant Mother" series by photographer Dorothea Lange, the image shows Florence Thompson and two of her children. (CNS/Library of Congress)
1929 vs. 2008: Similar forces at work eight decades apart

By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Historian Douglas Astolfi points to three periods of "incredible greed" on the part of wealthy corporations in American history.

The first occurred in the 1870s during a speculative boom following the Civil War. He identifies the Roaring '20s as the second as investors leveraged stocks to secure loans from banks to buy more stocks while the stock market took off in the post-World War I period.
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Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 38, No. 19 (Oct. 16, 2008):

-- Only the word of God has the power to change people's hearts. That's why knowing the Bible benefits communities as well as individuals, says Pope Benedict XVI as he opens the Oct. 5-26 world Synod of Bishops on the Bible in Rome.

-- Catholics should approach the Bible not so much as a textbook to be studied but as a communication from God that calls for a personal response, Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec says in a speech to the Synod of Bishops.
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