[annalex]

The distinction (Chicago School/Libertarian) was never important to what I wrote, because the Pope never addressed monetary policy or other specifics. The Pope's ideas are contrary to libertarianism broadly. Friedman himself never resisted the libertarian characterization:

He said that he was a libertarian philosophically, but a member of the U.S. Republican Party for the sake of "expediency" ("I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R.' And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.")

Milton Friedman (as a part of Libertarianism Series)

[Nifster]

and you missed his point completely.

Look the pope was very clear. You can decide that ‘ghettos’ in America are the fault of the free market if you want. It is historically and economically a false hood to say so. Go ahead and defend this jesuit all you want. He is not the friend of freedom nor of free markets