Papal Bull: Why Pope Francis Should Be Grateful For Capitalism Progressives are gleeful over Pope Francis’ recent “Apostolic Exhortation,” Evangelii Gaudium. And, why shouldn’t they be? The Pope’s passages on economics sound like they were copied and pasted out of The Nation or Mother Jones. Here is an example: “Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence ...
Dec. 4, 2013 - Forbes