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It is right at the present day to permit <!--3ref=u44=x83493.htm-->interest<!--k04--> on money lent, as it was not wrong to condemn the practice at a time when it was more difficult to find profitable <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->investments<!--k03--> for money.
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The change in the attitude of the Church is due entirely to a change in economic matters that require the present system. The Holy See itself puts its funds out at <!--3ref=u44=x83493.htm-->interest<!--k04-->, and requires ecclesiastical <!--2ref=u74=01143a.htm-->administrators<!--k01--> to do the same.
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There has never been at any <!--3ref=u66=14726a.htm-->time<!--k04--> any prohibition against the <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->investment<!--k06--> of capital in commercial or industrial undertakings or in the public funds.
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Lending money at <!--3ref=u44=x83493.htm-->interest<!--k02--> gives us the opportunity to exploit the <!--2ref=u73=11534a.htm-->passions<!--k01--> or necessities of other <!--3ref=u66=09580c.htm-->men<!--k02--> by compelling them to submit to ruinous <!--2ref=u66=04211a.htm-->conditions<!--k01-->; <!--3ref=u66=09580c.htm-->men<!--k08--> are <!--3ref=u44=x85482.htm-->robbed<!--k03--> and left destitute under the pretext of <!--3ref=u44=x81358.htm-->charity<!--k04-->. Such is the <!--k23-->usury against which the Fathers of the Church have always protested, and which is universally condemned at the present day.
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