The Pope's latest encyclical (a kind of churchy APA) decries "excessive zeal for … intellectual property, especially in the field of health care."
Section 22 of the letter, entitled "Human Development in Our Time," laid out the Pope's vision of human development goals. It also highlighted the failings of the current system, citing rigid ideology, consumerist "superdevelopment", corruption, and "cultural models and social norms of behavior …. which hinder the process of development." Casting a strikingly pragmatic tone, the encyclical underscores the complexity of development issues, which "should prompt us to liberate ourselves from ideologies, which oversimplify reality in artifical ways, and … lead us to examine objectively the full human dimension of the problems."
