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White Smoke and a Black Pope: Is Turkson the Church’s Future?
Naunihal Singh, The New Yorker - News Desk
Capitalism |
Last year, [Cardinal Peter Turkson] gained attention for being the top signatory on a document criticizing neoliberal economic policies and calling for a “true world political authority” to regulate the global economy. It would be a mistake, however, to read him as a social progressive. Only in America do Catholic conservatives embrace Ayn Rand; elsewhere they tend to follow Pope John Paul II, who was staunchly critical of what he saw as the shortcomings of capitalism.
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