Pope Leo Backs Populist Pro-Family Policies to Promote 'Stable Union Between a Man and a Woman'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Amid the demographic crisis impacting much of the Western world, Orbán's government has rejected the libertarian orthodoxy of non-state interference or reliance on mass migration in favour of enacting pro-family policies, such as income tax exemptions for mothers and "childbirth incentive loans" from the government, which can be wiped clean if a family has a certain amount of children.
50% : Part of the pro-family agenda for populist figures like Vance and Orbán has been a firm rejection of the neo-liberal fixation with free trade and open borders, which has seen millions of jobs shipped overseas to countries like Communist China while flooding Western nations with cheap foreign labour, thereby artificially suppressing the wages of the working class on two fronts.
47% : In his address Friday to foreign diplomats accredited to the Holy See, Pope Leo XIV harkened back to his predecessor and namesake Leo XIII's famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (or "On New Things) regarding the Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour. Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical was written during a period of wide-ranging social upheaval, as Marxist and anarchist movements rose in response to the disorienting changes of the Industrial Revolution and the often abusive treatment of workers.
36% : In it, he denounced both the abuses of dogmatic laissez-faire capitalism as well as the violent ideology of socialism which strived "against nature" in a foolhardy attempt to undo the inherent inequalities of the world.

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