Pope John Paul II Criticized Both Capitalism and Marxism

TCRnews.com - an article by Mark and Louise Zwick

In the accompanying article, ("How an Unknown Text Could Throw Light on John Paul II's Views on Economics") - Jonathan Luxmoore points out that in the years before Karol Wojtyla became Pope he was not an uncritical advocate of laissez-faire capitalism and that Catholic neoconservatives who have depicted him in this way have been mistaken. Luxmoore did not point out that the funding for the "seminars" on capitalism and Catholic thought taught by neoconservatives at the Lublin university in Poland came from foundations whose money came from oil companies and whose purpose is the furtherance of capitalism (e.g., the Earhart Foundation).

Rejected both extremes from his youth