Inside Pope Pius XII's Decree Against Communism

By 2013, Pope Francis was changing traditions of the Vatican (via The Atlantic). Francis is an admitted “anti-capitalist,” not surprising considering his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, who espoused elevating the poor and keeping the church in a state of austerity. Considered more of a populist, Francis has written at least 200 pages against the capitalist markets of the United States and Europe, even invoking the use of the Reagan Era term “trickle down economics” as a negative term.

Pope Pius’s successors, who include Pope John Paul II and Francis, have openly criticized the Church’s anti-intellectual stance against communist thinking and have paved the way for a more open-minded church that challenges the ideals of capitalistic free markets.

With a flair for aesthetics much like his namesake, Argentine native Pope Francis stated (via The Atlantic),  “While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few… Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules.”

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