This isn’t the Pope talking but still it this is an instruction WITHIN the Vatican that is within orthodox Vatican thought, No? I mean they aren’t a bunchy of renegades are they?
It is fair to wonder how influential this point of view is within the Vatican. And it is fair to wonder what are the odds the next Pope (may Benedict live long and health) will agree with this faction.
Orthodox thought doesn't encompass economics in an authoritative way. This is not an instruction. Like the man said, it's an exhortation. They do it all the time.
The Vatican is not a corporation. It's a College of Cardinals, which is a lot like any other college or universitywhich institutions the Church invented, by the way. Cardinals are free to talk and make pronouncements, some of them stupidsuch as virtually anything that comes out of Justice and Peace.
The only teachings that are instructive or normative or dogmatic are those that the Church identifies as such. They're all on faith and morals, not politics or econ, and there are no surprises. It's funny. Non-Catholics and fallen-away Catholics are scandalized by two things: the Church's diversity of opinion on secular matters, and the Church's unanimity on faith and morals. Most of them seem to wish it were the other way around.
If Justice and Peace comes out tomorrow morning and says the Trinity doesn't really describe God, their offices will be closed that afternoon, pending a long inquiry and an invitation to the Cardinal in question to spend the rest of his life in quiet contemplation.