Given Pope Francis’ recent comments about economics, including a tweet endorsing ‘legitimate redistribution’, it seemed worthwhile to look back a few decades to the modern Pope who seemed to have been most sympathetic to free-market capitalism and most critical of socialist economic systems, including the Latin American version known as liberation theology. Michael Novak’s memoirs, Writing From Left to Right, helped me understand how Michael and others helped guide John Paul II to come to an appreciation of capital which he had not learned earlier.
Jerry: “Anything you want to say about John Paul II? He seems to be a rather significant portion of the book.”
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