To Obama, the old order of securities created by contracts freely entered into is like the "house built on sand" in Jesus' parable.

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And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

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Delivering the homily of his first Mass as leader of the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis ended his remarks with a call to reconstruction of the church, which he said is in danger of being like a house of sand built by children on a beach.

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