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Can Wall Street Sell the Pope on Capitalism?

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Pope Francis Finds Favor Among Wall Street Elite

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Wall Street is turning the other cheek.

Despite Pope Francis’s critique of an inequitable economy and the primacy of profit, finance executives are embracing his arrival in New York next week. Some are seeing the best qualities of their own leaders in the spiritual head of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics -- and even holding out hope they may change his mind just a little.