Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: joe fonebone

One fact is that catholic countries are the ones that are socialist and socialists have desire for young boys. So I am not surprised that the Catholic church is involved in these things. Tell me why Catholics have this love for socialism.


21 posted on 11/30/2011 4:00:02 PM PST by JimWayne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]


To: JimWayne
One fact is that catholic countries are the ones that are socialist

With countries like Sweden and North Korea being particularly devoutly Catholic...

32 posted on 11/30/2011 4:49:32 PM PST by WPaCon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]

To: JimWayne
Tell me why Catholics have this love for socialism.

They don't. Leo XIII's letter on socialism (1878)
From the first paragraph:

We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, ... strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning - the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.
And from further on:
For, "the church of the living God, which is the pillar and ground of truth,"(1 Tim. 3:15) hands down those doctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.
And one more quote:
But Catholic wisdom, sustained by the precepts of natural and divine law, provides with especial care for public and private tranquility in its doctrines and teachings regarding the duty of government and the distribution of the goods which are necessary for life and use. For, while the socialists would destroy the "right" of property, alleging it to be a human invention altogether opposed to the inborn equality of man, and, claiming a community of goods, argue that poverty should not be peaceably endured, and that the property and privileges of the rich may be rightly invaded, the Church, with much greater wisdom and good sense, recognizes the inequality among men, who are born with different powers of body and mind, inequality in actual possession, also, and holds that the right of property and of ownership, which springs from nature itself, must not be touched and stands inviolate. For she knows that stealing and robbery were forbidden in so special a manner by God, the Author and Defender of right, that He would not allow man even to desire what belonged to another, and that thieves and despoilers, no less than adulterers and idolaters, are shut out from the Kingdom of Heaven.

43 posted on 11/30/2011 9:17:35 PM PST by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson