Since his election, Pope Francis has warned repeatedly of the challenges and dangers posed by a “savage capitalism” that “has taught the logic of profit at any cost, of giving in order to get, of exploitation without thinking of people.” He has rightly criticized a “dictatorship of the economy” and a “cult of money” that consistently subordinates concern for human beings to questions of efficiency and profit. He has also held up an alternative rubric, noting that “concern for the fundamental material and spiritual welfare of every human person is the starting-point for every political and economic solution and the ultimate measure of its effectiveness and its ethical validity.”Pope Francis’s critique of “savage capitalism,” coupled with the power of his own personal witness, has awakened new hopes and aspirations.