Pope Francis's Challenge to Income Inequality

From Robert W. McElroy, in America Magazine:
”A sustained reading of Pope Francis’ words on inequality and the barrage of criticism that has greeted them raises another possibility, namely, that the backlash against the pope’s message did not arise because he failed to recognize the centrality of markets, the nature of economies like the United States and the trajectory of authentic Catholic social teaching, but precisely because he did recognize the realities, and in doing so has raised fundamental questions about justice and the American economic system.”
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Robert Cardinal McElroy, a graduate of Stanford, wrote this when he was Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco. He has since become the Bishop of San Diego, and has recently been named to the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis.