Actually, I don’t know what Pope Francis actually said, but I suspect they got this from Rush, who seems to have gotten it from an MSM report. I’d like to see what the document actually says—and not out of context.
FWIW, when he was a bishop in South America, Pope Francis was famous for OPPOSING Liberation Theology and socialist politicians. That doesn’t mean he’s a total capitalist, but on the record he is not a Liberation Theologist.
Perhaps we’d better wait for a better look at what he said. He has been misrepresented about a hundred times by the press since taking office.
Opposing socialism and liberation theology doesn’t automatically make one embrace capitalism. He probably sees elements in each which he likes, but wouldn’t want to commit completely to any of them since he also sees elements which he doesn’t like.