[kosta50]

Second, I predict we’ll see all sorts of exploding heads from among the devotees of the so called “Christian Right”

After reading statements such as

"In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak"

they will brand him the head of the Catholic Socialist Church. :)

[annalex]

I, too, haven’t read the entire encyclical, but the religious right has never been characterized by off-the-cliff free market extremism. To be sure, many of us at FR went through a libertarian phase, — I did, — but typically the attraction of libertarianism fades precisely when the political right wing becomes primarily Christian in its outlook.