George Will: Pope Francis’ fact-free flamboyance

Here is a link to a column by George Will about Pope Francis's economic ignorance.

The column begins with:

Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.