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The Pope Just Called Private Property a 'Secondary Right.' He Couldn't Be More Wrong

• https://fee.org, Brad Polumbo

Since becoming the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis has not shied away from the political domain.

On Sunday, the religious leader used the COVID-19 pandemic to renew his criticisms of free-market capitalism.

"The fragility of world systems in the face of the pandemic has demonstrated that not everything can be resolved by market freedom," Francis wrote in part of a lengthy religious text. "To care for the world in which we live means to care for ourselves. Yet we need to think of ourselves more and more as a single family dwelling in a common home. Such care does not interest those economic powers that demand quick profits."

"In today's world, many forms of injustice persist, fed by… a profit-based economic model that does not hesitate to exploit, discard and even kill human beings," Francis lamented.