The Catholic Church has, from its beginning, reflected the neutrality of wealth and the virtue of assisting the poor to improve themselves, all very clearly delineated in the chapters of Church history, beginning with the gospels. The one ideology of the Church is to encourage, to assist, to relieve, to motivate, to develop the people of the world for the better. As trends develop that warrant correction, the pope, in his position as leader of Christianity, must comment, and that for the good of all. No broken ideology dare raise its head, but capitalism is, like any financial system, in constant need of checks and balances.
And where will these checks and balances come from. An absolute monarch in the form of a Habsburg or a Bourbon, a conclave of cardinals, or any other statist mechanism. No, our founders believed in the free market. The less interference from any government or church the better. The idea that economic activity needs constant checks and balances is a recipe for tyranny. A tyranny that Americans recoil from. Free Men, Free Markets is as American as apple pie.