A spade, a spade. Am in Italy. It matters.
Unbridled capitalism is the ‘dung of the devil’, says Pope Francis
“The new colonialism takes on different faces. At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon: corporations, loan agencies, certain ‘free trade’ treaties, and the imposition of measures of ‘austerity’ which always tighten the belt of workers and the poor,” he said.
In the last months of his reign, Francis lashed out at the Trump administration’s plans for “mass deportations” of migrants. In a letter to American bishops that some commentators saw as containing implicit criticisms of JD Vance, Trump’s Catholic vice-president, the pope denounced measures that link “the illegal status of some migrants with criminality”. The pope received Vance for a brief personal audience on the eve of his death on Easter Monday. The US vice-president also met senior Church officials who conveyed the Vatican’s dismay about Washington’s immigration policies.