Naturally everything the Pope says stands in stark contrast to the modern Republican party's entire platform on economic issues. Their raison d'être as a political party is to decrease the top marginal tax rate to nothing, if possible - way down from the 90% where it stood when Eisenhower, a Republican, was president. That would of course increase income inequality exponentially. But if His Holiness ever hopes to reach his audience of American Catholics who voted for Donald Trump and his Republican congress because of abortion and gay marriage, he'd better spend some Vatican money and buy a little air time on Fox News. That's the only way he'll ever hope to reach that particular audience - not that Fox would ever allow it. Since Pope Francis lashed out at Trump's proposed anti-Muslim, anti-immigration policies before the election last year he has been labelled anathema by the right-wing media. Not sure how he overcomes that.