This weekend, I will take up some responses to Pope Francis’s ringing call for wealth redistribution and reforms in global capitalism, a topic which I took up in my column last May 17 (“10 richest Filipinos and the Pope’s call for legitimate wealth redistribution,” Times, May 17, 2014).

As might be expected, the holy pontiff’s radical proposal and stinging critique of capitalism did not go unnoticed or unanswered. Many liberals and progressives, welcomed his ideas. But there were also many who vigorously differed with him.

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