And this latest supposedly Marxist or socialist screed is the victim of a bad translation. What he actually said was that free market economics alone will not save anybody. That's straight out of the Catechism.
Father Z's blog explains how the Spanish was mis-translated. You know Fr. Z is a straight-up traditional priest, and he has had his moments of worry about Pope Francis. But not only have mistranslations and omissions come to light, Pope Francis himself has clarified and contradicted where it seems necessary.
We have to be careful not to run with what the media is saying about this pope. They desperately want him to be what you fear him to be. So you probably have a somewhat misleading impression of him here.
I don't much care for Jesuits generally*, and of course Latin America is full of liberation-theology types. But given Pope Francis' track record I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. And my due obedience.
*I was told long ago that the best way to tell the Good Jesuits from the Other Kind is to look at their shoes. A Good Jesuit will have beat-up, down at heels, grungy old shoes, because he's serious about his vow of Poverty. And Pope Francis is not going to change that - nor is he going to change his gregarious nature by isolating himself in the Papal Apartments.
It was deliberate bad translation. Hopefully the Pope is now aware of these deliberate mis-translations and will speak carefully from now on.
As for poverty and Third world nations, wouldn't it be nice if someone would look into how corrupt governments play into the plights of these countries?
We never hear about this (govt. corruption) this as the reason for poverty.