He says later on that “socialism has been clearly and vigorously condemned and denounced by an unbroken string of no less than 11 consecutive popes from Pius IX in 1849 to Benedict the 16th in 2005.” Notice, he stops with Benedict. It’s pretty obvious that he thinks Francis is a socialist,and disagrees with him.
The Catholic church has been cursed with bad Popes before. Hopefully we don’t have too many more years with this one.
I am working on a transcript of Fr. Meeks’ speech, when I get done, I will post it here.
There is a transcript at the link.