[Alex Murphy]

The recent economic statements by Pope Francis in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (EG) read as a call for a “Third Way” economic system ruled by experts and people of good will. Pope Francis writes, “Growth in justice requires more than economic growth, while presupposing such growth: it requires de­cisions, programs, mechanisms and process­es specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.”

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[SC_Pete]

His heart is in the right place—but his head is another story.

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"Pope Francis writes, “Growth in justice requires more than economic growth, while presupposing such growth: it requires de­cisions, programs, mechanisms and process­es specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.”

This is classic modernism. The trouble is there are no good, benevolent, wise, just humans to administer such a system. Only corrupt individuals whose evil hearts will swell with pride when given such power and the cure will always be worse than the disease. For all its faults, the amorality of the invisible hand is always more just than the political machinations of corrupted man.