“Confessions of a Catholic convert to capitalism”

A slightly long but excellent essay by a thinker whom I greatly admire:

http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/06/confessions-catholic-convert-capitalism

I very much like the way he brings his belief in free markets and his Christian commitment to alleviating poverty.  They are not, as some assume, in irreconcilable conflict with each other.