From our Lord and Saviour, via his earthly representative and the New York Times:

The Vatican called on Monday for an overhaul of the world’s financial systems, and once again proposed the establishment of a supranational authority to oversee the global economy, saying it was needed to bring more democratic and ethical principles to a marketplace run amok.

Certainly the Vatican’s rich imagination is on full display in the opening to this paragraph:

“The time has come to conceive of institutions with universal competence, now that vital goods shared by the entire human family are at stake, goods which the individual states cannot promote and protect by themselves,” Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, the president of the pontifical council, said as he presented the report on Monday.

For a mission statement we’d recommend Deuteronomy 15:6, but only as rendered in the King James:

For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

But so long as we’re talking about supranational organisations, we have a feeling some countries on Europe’s periphery would prefer Exodus 22:25:

If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Amen.