There is no confusion. The Pope is a socialist.
He writes in euphemisms that he quite purposefully knows will be appreciated by socialists around the world and taken by them, and used by them - with his knowledge - as moral support for the THEIR agendas. Those are the facts.
Just scratch any group of learned Catholic economists and you’ll find they are socialists and just like Obama they will say their political-economic views have been informed by the Catholic Church’s “social justice” teachings.
The Pope is trying to imitate Jesus not imitate an economist. If you consider Jesus a socialist, then the Pope is a socialist.