What an intriguing coincidence that Pope Francis should have caused a stir with his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, while Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, should have come out with a diametrically opposite economic philosophy in what was billed as the Margaret Thatcher Lecture, writes William Keegan.I do not believe that I am alone in thinking that while Pope Francis has enhanced his reputation with what even the right-wing American Catholic commentator Ross Douthat, writing in The New York Times, describes as “a sharp critique of consumer capitalism and financial laissez-faire”, Boris Johnson, the hitherto charismatic mayor of London, has wrecked his political career by proclaiming that “greed” and “envy” are to be encouraged as “a va
05 December 2013, The Tablet
‘Francis has enhanced his reputation with his critique of consumer capitalism’
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