I was struck by the excellent quality of the article by William Kilpatrick on Pope Francis’s Socialist Agenda. It’s a disturbing “elephant in the room”. Those with even a basic understanding of the Church’s social teaching know that Socialism and Communism are condemned because they seek to place the state in the role proper to God.
For a variety of reasons the mainstream Church has embraced socialist ideas on the global, diocesan and many parish levels. One is more apt to find agreement with the pronouncements and projects of the United Nations then they are a concern with the First Commandment or the command to evangelize.
In Canada, a letter of congratulations was went to the radically pro-abortion Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when his party was elected but the same courtesy was not done for his predecessor from the Conservative party. Go ahead, read that letter, the name of Jesus or God does not appear ONCE!
When a “catholic” Ted Kennedy or Pierre Trudeau or other public haters of Christ’s Law die they are feted and celebrated- a cardinal dressed in white presides over a grand funeral. Do you think that impacts their judgement one iota? Their ilk are given communion without a pause- is there no concern for their souls? Is it just optic or politics now?
Friends, the postmoderns, satanists, wicca, islamists, radical feminists, open border types, modernist Catholics, LGBT lobby, and socialists vote one way. Why? Some members of that group I’ve listed would kill others on the same list! What’s the common ground?
The common enemy is “The West”, Christendom and of Jesus Christ as understood as GOD. Fully God and Fully Human. (“Hippy Jesus” gets a pass apparently because he is mythical and harmless like santa or is regarded as a “prophet”.)
As Christians we care for the poor but we do not worship the poor.
We help them and one another voluntarily, not coerced or redistributed at the point of a gun figurative or literal.
You may also find these of interest:
Church Teaching On Socialism and Communism
Do “Leftys” incline Good?