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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI told banking and development officials Saturday to keep families’ needs paramount as they devise solutions to Europe’s financial crises.

Economy and finance “are no more than tools, means” to safeguard human “capital, the only capital worth saving,” Benedict said.

Benedict told representatives of the European Council’s Development Bank during a Vatican audience that their task was to make the “human person, and even more particularly, families and those in great need, the center and the aim” of economic policies.

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