I don’t need to have an opinion of Pope Francis, really. I’m not Catholic. He seems a nice enough fellow. But it is now painfully obvious that he has not even the most rudimentary understanding of economics. It doesn’t bug me... It’s not his job.
It is his job to tell people to think about what they do with their wealth. Thinking about it is not the same thing as having the State confiscate it.
He is also looking from a global perspective (there are Catholics all over the place), which may note some things that might be missed in, say, Silicon Valley.