Two recent Washington Post op-ed columns on Pope
Francis “apostolic exhortation,” The Joy of the Gospel, focus
on his denunciation of unjust economic systems.
The basic
positions Francis takes on economic and social justice are not new; all recent
popes have expressed a similar critique of modern capitalist society … But no
recent pope has been so forceful in denouncing the “idolatry of money” and
making the inexorable rise of inequality one of the church’s central concerns.
And E.J. Dionne seconds that judgement
He’s not
the first pope to denounce our unjust economic system. … The difference is that
a concern for the poor and a condemnation of economic injustice are at the very
heart of Francis’s mission.
