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She does, however, have a mission of truth to accomplish, in every time and circumstance, for a society that is attuned to man, to his dignity, to his vocation. Without truth, it is easy to fall into an empiricist and skeptical view of life, incapable of rising to the level of praxis because of a lack of interest in grasping the values — sometimes even the meanings — with which to judge and direct it. Fidelity to man requires fidelity to the truth, which alone is the guarantee of freedom (cf. Jn 8:32) and of the possibility of integral human development. For this reason the Church searches for truth, proclaims it tirelessly and recognizes it wherever it is manifested. This mission of truth is something that the Church can never renounce. Her social doctrine is a particular dimension of this proclamation: it is a service to the truth which sets us free.

Ignoring for the moment his false dichotomy between socialism as "truth", on the one hand, and empiricism and skepticism on the other, his proposals, if enacted, would certainly interfere in many ways in the politics of nations. But where is the truth in the whole oxymoronic notion of "charity" at the barrel of a gun? Where is the truth in turning the meaning of voluntary charity upside down? Where is the truth in socialist redistribution of wealth schemes? Where is the truth in proposals for unbridled power of elite global "managers" "with teeth", which are nothing but the teeth of ravenous wolves?

He refers here to Jesus in John 8:32 saying that the truth shall set you free, but what regard have international socialists who aim to be the controllers of this global "authority" ever had for truth? Where did Jesus Christ, Truth Himself, ever propose these kind of socialist doctrines, which will be enforced by death or imprisonment for disobedience? How is socialism that enslaves and emprovishes a "service to the truth which sets us free"? Where is the truth in the accumulation of governmental power of universal jurisdiction by a select few?

The Scripture says, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty". I must have missed the part in the Bible where is says that where there is "managing globalization" or forced "redistribution of wealth" there is liberty.

Where is the truth in the naivete, (or derangement, or deception or whatever) that Godless tyrants have any intention of restraining themselves by quaint ideas of subsidiarity and limited, stratified government?

Cordially,