Novak: True Catholic scholar?
Novak: True Catholic scholar?
Not being a Catholic I am doubtless a suspect source to be critiquing “a true Catholic scholar,” but having followed the link, all I see is an article entitled “Agreeing with Pope Francis” - and heavily quoting (and linking to) an encyclical by John Paul II.You might not like the implication that JP II knew something about economics that Francis doesn’t but - Novak asserts - a Papal Encyclical is a more weighty pronouncement than an Apostolic Exhortation. And, having lived under socialsm - starting under the Nazi occupation in 1940 and continuing under Soviet occupation straight through to his elevation to the papacy - JP II knew something about governmental “care” for the poor in practice.