Dear Michael S.,

Um, we can't will the categories away, can we?  And, please let me note that when the story broke about the coup involving the leftist president of Honduras, you actually posted a reference to the editorial page of the WSJ (here)!  Talk about economic right-wing!!  OMG!!!

"Although Benedict's emphasis in the encyclical is on the theological foundations of Catholic social teaching, amid the dense prose there are indications, as shown above, that he is to the left of almost every politician in America. What politician would casually refer to 'redistribution of wealth' or talk of international governing bodies to regulate the economy? Who would call for increasing the percentage of GDP devoted to foreign aid? Who would call for the adoption of 'new life-styles'' in which 'the quest for truth, beauty, goodness and communion with others for the sake of common growth are the factors which determine consumer choices, savings and investments'?"

--Thomas Reese, SJ, here.