I
“What do you
think of Evangelii Gaudium?”
Not having
read more than a few snippets, and having avoided the brouhaha that followed its
release last November, I didn’t know what to say.
“Well, I know
the Pope's a faithful son of the Church, which rules out his being a Marxist.”
My friend
persisted. “But, what do you think about
his economics?”
“I haven’t
read the document in toto, and I won’t think anything about them until I do.”
Now, having
read and prayed over it, the first thing to say is that the document is not
about political economy. It “is not a
social document” (184).
