[BfloGuy]

If one’s life is oriented toward maximizing income, irrespective of morality, that is idolatry, just as St. Paul said.

You are lumping all markets together as immoral then? The Pope made no such distinctions and I think you try too hard to defend a socialist.

Markets are the most democratic of institutions. Two people meet to exchange their own property for their mutual advantage. Markets are what exist when people are free.

There will always be dishonest people. Are we then to condemn free exchange as tyrannical because of the few? Your comment is incoherent.

[Tax-chick]

You are lumping all markets together as immoral then?

No, I'm not. "Markets" are neutral. People and their actions are either moral or immoral.

The Pope made no such distinctions and I think you try too hard to defend a socialist.

Piffle on whatever dichotomy you're trying to draw. Failure uncritically to affirm capitalists is not "socialism." People do wrong things in pursuit of profit. How can anyone fail to understand that?

People do wrong things in pursuit of socialist ideology, too. Who can misunderstand that? Not Pope Francis, who has addressed the subject.