Once Pope Francis Knows U.S. Capitalism He Will Love It, Says Catholic Theologian-Economist | Sojourners

Once Pope Francis Knows U.S. Capitalism He Will Love It, Says Catholic Theologian-Economist

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The Rev. Martin Schlag is a trained economist as well as a Catholic moral theologian, and when he first read some of Pope Francis’ powerful critiques of the current free market system he had the same thought a lot of Americans did: “Just horrible.”

But at a meeting on May 11 at the Harvard Club, Schlag, an Austrian-born priest who teaches economics at an Opus Dei-run university in Rome, reassured a group of Catholics, many from the world of business and finance, that Francis’ views on capitalism aren’t actually as bad as he feared.

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