Some Catholics consider Pope Francis to be a Marxist, but he is using his position and organization to orchestrate the entire planet into full-blown Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.

In his sponsorship of a March 2020 economic summit, "Economy of Francesco", Francis calls for a "different kind of economy", "new economy" and Sustainable Development.

In Laudato Si', the word "sustainable" was used 21 times to convince readers that UN-style Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, holds the future of the world. However, in a true application of the Hegelian Dialectic, Francis attacks the "Technocratic Paradigm" by stating "The technocratic paradigm also tends to dominate economic and political life."

Two key Vatican documents to read:

Laudato Si' Encyclical (May 24, 2015)

"Economy of Francesco" 2020 summit (May 1, 2019)[

The author of the following article only sees Marxism, but readers of Technocracy News & Trends understand that Marxism is only the necessary stepping-stone to Technocracy and not the end in itself. This was originally postulated by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1970 book, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Order.  ? TN Editor

As if there needs to be further evidence that the current occupant of St. Peter's Chair in Rome is a Marxist, the announcement of an upcoming conference at Assisi entitled the "Economy of Francesco" should convince any skeptic otherwise.

In his invitation letter to "young economists and entrepreneurs worldwide," Bergoglio sets the agenda for the Leftist confab quite clearly which is virulently anti-market, a call for massive redistribution of wealth, and a reordering of the current economic systems of the world with a healthy dose of climate change nonesense:

. . . a different kind of economy: one that brings life not death, one that is inclusive and not exclusive, humane and not dehumanizing, one that cares for the environment and does not despoil it.*

While Bergoglio's Marxist credentials have been firmly established, his blashemous  actions and words has a growing number outside of "sedevacantist circles" calling him a heretic.  The legitimacy of "Pope Francis," however, is more fundamental than him being a manifest heretic, but his standing as a legitimate pope is invalid since his ordination as a priest and his consecration as a bishop came under the new rites of Holy Orders instituted in the wake of the Second Vatican anti-Council (1962-1965).

The mastermind behind Bergoglio's summit is professor Luigino Bruni and from his comments he sounds more radical than the Argentine Apostate, if that is possible.  Professor Bruni wants to use taxation as a weapon to "redistribute income and wealth from the rich to the poor."*

Bruni, a professor of political economy at the Italian University, LUMSA, and the author of a number of books, basis his advocacy for redistribution of wealth on the Scriptures:

[T]he Bible has many words to offer our economic life and ideas [with] the transformation of wealth into well-being.**

It appears that the good professor's Bible is missing the Seventh Commandment of the Decalogue which solemnly states: THOU SHALL NOT STEAL!  In no legitimate commentary ever written on this Commandment is there an exception made for the confiscation of wealth from the well-to-do to be given to the poor.  Probably just an oversight on the Professor's part.

Because they are blinded by socialistic ideology, Bruni, Bergoglio, and the likes of Bernie Sanders cannot see that the growing wealth inequality which they complain about is not the result of "capitalism," but is the outcome of the monetary policy of the world's central banks.  This, along with tax policies which hamper innovation and shield the entrenched financial class from competition, is why financial elites are able to maintain and increase their power.

Central bank policy of suppressing interest rates and of money printing allow banks and financial institutions to receive "free money" which they can invest and speculate with at zero cost.  The boom (actually a bubble) in asset prices on Wall Street is a demonstration of how wealth disparity takes place.