“That’s because too many treat the free-market as if it were dogma. It’s a human institution, and subject to imperfections.
Hey, if reuters got it wrong, then he gets a pass. If he really said this stuff, he got it wrong and deserves any
criticism that comes his way. Plus, if he really believes
what he said, he deserves to be referred to as a socialist
pope. No more, no less. I’m willing to wait.
Earlier popes have said that you cannot be a socialist and a Christian. (It’s on the front page of every Wanderer news publication, but I don’t have one of those at hand.)
I had heard that much of his focus was going to focus on the poorer countries enslaved by foreign loans. As conservatives, we all know what happened to THAT money. There’s a system set up to deal with such things, but it’s only making things worse.
My solution would be to round up all of the thieves and despots, and kill them all. God will know His own. Of course, my personal solution strays just a bit from Christian thought, so I can understand the fact he doesn’t say that himself.