[servo1969]

This was supposed to be an excerpt.
Sorry.
The actual article linked is much longer.

[Sherman Logan]

The problem here is that the general attitude the Pope expresses towards business and capitalism is much older than Marx. In fact, it arguably goes all the way back to the founding of the Church, and most certainly was prevalent during the Middle Ages.

Not all who are skeptical towards business or capitalism are Marxists.

[Uncle Miltie]

Free Markets are arguably the second most important principle (next to G-d’s relationship with man) for the freedom of mankind.

That the Pope regularly misunderstands the principle of freedom in economics means he is either horribly misinformed or a doctrinaire leftist.

I can’t figure out yet whether he’s truly a leftists anti-freedom guy.

I’ll take opinions from my Catholic Free Market friends on the matter.

[SuziQ]

So no, you’re not imagine that Pope Francis is preaching Marxism to the flock. He is a product of his time and place: namely the Catholic Church in Latin America from the 1950s through to the present. The Church there is a Marxist institution and he has absorbed those teachings.

So are you actually reading his words, or what someone else THINKS he said? Jorge Bergoglio has never been a Liberation Theology kinda guy, and has worked against it, in Argentina.

Just because he doesn't slobber all over capitalism doesn't mean he's a Marxist. He doesn't like unbridled capitalism, or the type of crony capitalism that's practiced all over the world. Heck, we Tea Partiers have been complaining about crony capitalism for years!

[BfloGuy]

Thanks for the post. I once read Bookworm regularly but had let if fall off my list. His [her?] comments are, perhaps, the best I’ve read on the topic of the Pope’s address.