Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time.
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ:
Last Sunday, at the end of Mass, I had a brief, yet interesting conversation about my column with one of you. That is why I decided to continue the conversation that began last week with this week’s column.
The social doctrine of the Church, which Pope Francis so insistently proclaims calling us to conversion is not an ideology and is not aligned with any of them. Socialism, liberalism, communism and capitalism are ideologies. The market economy is an economic system different from a centrally planned economy. Although it is true that capitalism is associated with a market economy, we see in our times that even totalitarian communist regimes move towards a market economy.
St. Paul VI taught that the social doctrine of the Church does not attempt to abolish the market but to keep it within the limits of justice, morality, to make it more human.
