I don't know about shaking up internal structures. Certainly in terms of who has been excommunicated, there has been no change. What he has done is moved the

I don't know about shaking up internal structures. Certainly in terms of who has been excommunicated, there has been no change. What he has done is moved the economic teachings from a branch of Catholic social teaching into a more central role. I think that's easy to understate. But that's not the same as taking a new position on the issues. And I think the liberals have vastly overstated the way in which Francis seems to be one of them (he has excommunicated a bishop for calling for the ordination of women for example). > "What is clearly changed is the willingness to harshly criticise the North-American model." I don't know. Rerum Novarium, Centicimus Annus, etc. all included similarly harsh language. That's not something I see as different. It's just that Popes were ignored when they said this. In fact John Paul II complained heavily that such criticism of Capitalism were ignored by so many Catholics.... > "Bergoglio himself represents a South-American view of the world which is much more critical of traditional US policy in all sectors, including economic ones." I think that's an important point actually, and I think it puts his attacks on independent retirement as poisonous fruits of capitalism (i.e. a society that "throws away old people") in a certain context. But the corrolary here is that he has legitimated Dorothy Day's withering attack on Social Security and thus attacking causes even more dear to the American left than abortion.