Can you be capitalist and a Catholic in the age of Pope Francis?—”America This Week” Feb 15, 2017

Summary: <br> In this week's podcast, Arthur C. Brooks joins hosts Matt Malone, S.J., and Kerry Weber this week to talk about his provocative article, <a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/06/confessions-catholic-convert-capitalism">"Confessions of a Capitalist Convert."</a> Associate Editor Robert David Sullivan joins to contribute his expertise on economics.<br> In conversation, Matt Malone raised Pope Francis' well known critiques of free enterprise, which Brooks endorses, and asked if this critique is compatible with Brooks' perspective and moral concerns. "It's mixed, as you'd expect," said Brooks. "I look at a lot of these issues from the point of view of an American.... The greatest exemplar of free enterprise has been in the United States and it has not been in Argentina. So I understand that people come from a background that's not the same as mine that I have to be sympathetic to. That's a basic question of empathy."<br>