While Pope Francis flays capitalism for its’ failures, greed and other vices he simultaneously implies the existence of morally perfected men who are able to make good on the Pope’s claim that everyone has a God-given right to have a job, to own land, and to have a home.
What’s missing from the Pope’s revolutionary exhortations? Answer: the sinfulness of all humans, none barred. This means that capitalism’s failures and greed are due to the same sinful condition as afflicts the Pope and his imaginary morally perfect men.
But then the Pope recently embraced evolutionary thinking and chastised the faithful for holding fast to the Genesis account ex nihilo. On one hand, an evolutionary cosmogony serves up an anti-creation account – an inverted exegesis that reduces man in the spiritual image of the Holy Trinity to evolved ape, and with the other argues that since humanity has evolved from lesser to greater biological organisms, the same change process is in play in the area of truth, morals and biblical infallibility. Therefore, all that can be known at present – and forever – is that there is no absolute or fixed certainty in either the areas of truth and morality or the Revealed Word of God.
His proper role should be to urge Capitalists engaged in business to make better moral decisions. Not to blow-up the system.