CSPAN Road To The White House September 21, 2015
Virtuously, any system would do. Madison saying if men were angels, there would be no need of government. The popes critique of the free market system has two tracks. One based on facts on the ground. The other at the level of theory. In both hes not only condemning excesses, hes condemning the system itself. As a theory, free market ideology opposes almost all government and intervention in the market. But pope francis and catholic social teaching do not share this horror of government. Government an expression of the common good. Government is called upon to enact justice. John paul ii said ...