The guy is from Argentina, the land alternated from banana republic to socialist cesspit. You really expect a cleric from there to be spouting Hayek and Von Mises?
The guy is not anticapitalist, even though his words might irritate Anglo-Saxons who take their economic and political stability for granted. The Kirchners hate the guy and the fact he got elevated to Pope. They’re the couple who have ran Argentina into the ground (husband is now dead).
The fact that he is from Argentina, he should know what a big failure crony socialism is.
I don’t entirely understand your comment about irritating “Anglo Saxons”-—I guess that would include me since many of my ancestors came from England centuries ago.
The Pope’s comments do in fact irritate conservatives, especially those of us deeply committed to the principles of our Founding Fathers-—that is a strong belief in a limited government constitutional republic where individual liberty and private property are protected and free market capitalism strongly protected and encouraged.