Does your free market include workman’s comp? Assurances against insider trading? Any safeguards against fraud or exploitation?
I used to be for an entirely government-free free market but fallen beings that we are, greed and theft still happen. You’re setting up a false dichotomy. It doesn’t follow that the Pope is a Marxist or anti-capitalist because he thinks the government has a responsibility to the common good for its citizens.
Also, where in the exhortation does the Pope say that he is anti-capitalist?
Also, everything that comes from Rome does not stand alone in a vacuum. It has to be read in light of Catholic tradition, which includes the principle of subsidiarity, which is nearly the anti-thesis of Big Government.
why don’t you read the whole thing for yourself I have posted multiple times where his remarks are anti free market and anti capitalist