[DallasDeb]

An economy that answers both the demands of distributive justice and social justice must incorporate into its structure “internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust.”

There can be no justice in the distribution of wealth when so many of the hands that the wealth goes to are corrupt, as in the UN ministers, the leaders of most African nations, the Middle East, the IMF, etc.

[Antoninus]

There can be no justice in the distribution of wealth when so many of the hands that the wealth goes to are corrupt, as in the UN ministers, the leaders of most African nations, the Middle East, the IMF, etc.

Actually, the Pope makes that point in the encylclical. And in truth, the system of altruism works a lot better when moral hands are at the tiller. When those doling out the gifts are corrupt, it only results in an increase of poverty.