The Acton Institute, devoted to the study and promotion of "a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles", published a critical review of the recent Encyclical letter drafted by Pope Francis, an apostolic exhortation "to embark upon a new charter of evangelization" but with a lot of emphasys on "a Church which is poor and for the poor" and on social dialogue. The Acton Institute reaction refers to the Pope's denounciation of the current economic system as "unjust at its root", because "a new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual" that according to this exhortation derives from an "autonomy of the market" in which "financial speculation" and "widespread corruption" and "self-serving tax-evasion reign".
Acton Responds to ‘Evangelii Gaudium’
The Acton Institute has been flooded with media requests because of the 2013 Apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis. While "Evangelii Gaudium" primarily examined the role of evangelization in the world, the new Pope also wighted in on economic issues and the free market. Acton's primary criticism of the document, stated by research director Samuel Gregg in National Review, was that far too many unexamined economic assumptions had made their way into the text. One might assume from some of the Pope's comments that the role of the State's interest is benign or unbiased in the world in comparison to the free market.
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