Is the Pope Catholic? | City Journal
Fratelli Tutti, unsurprisingly, confirms the pope s solid positioning on the left as an ecologist and anti-capitalist, a stance rooted in the revolutionary doctrines of his Argentine youth among the Jesuits of Buenos Aires fellow travelers of Liberation Theology and hostile to the economic liberalism favored by military dictators. Times have changed, and the poverty that rightly haunts Pope Francis has massively diminished around the world thanks to globalization, free trade, the market economy, and the scientific revolution in agriculture (GMO soybeans in Argentina, for example). The encyclical takes no account of this progress but presses on in the fight with a largely imaginary enemy that the pope, like all leftist intellectuals, calls neoliberalism.
This is the enemy to be slain, according to Fratelli Tutti
Ai yi yi chihuahua!