Do RCs Know about Catholics and Commies?

8/13/2019 Do RCs Know about Catholics and Commies?

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Do Roman Catholics Know about

Catholics and Commies?


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Cathol ics and Communists

The Catholi c Church's recent h istory of sympathizing with, and even supporti ng,

Marxist progressivism is clear, sad, and indicative of a deeply irrational and anti -

individual streak within the modern Church hierarchy.Catholics who care about theChurch, its history, and its future -- and also about humanity, reason and f reedom --

must stop making excuses for their current spiritual leadership's collectivist

authoritarian impulses.

Having now drawn a bull's eye on my own forehead in bold colors, I shall attempt to make my

case. Let us follow the most natural path of reasoning, proceeding from particulars to universals.

South Korea recently observed the third anniversary of the North Korean artillery

attack against Yeonpyeong, an inhabited island which was the staging ground for a

South Korean military exercise. The attack killed four South Koreans, includingtwo civilians, and wounded many others. The Sunday before this anniversary, a

senior Catholic priest, Park Chang-shin,gave a sermon in which he went all-out

Jeremiah Wright:

What should North Korea do if South Korea-U.S. military exercises are

being carried out near the problematic NLL [Northern Limit Line, a UN-
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The priests, as their action committee's name declares, are for "justice," which

in modern Catholic parlance, of course, implies economic equality achieved

through redistribution, i.e., the universal annihilation of profit, property, and

prosperity. In short, they favor "democratic" slavery in the form of

progressivism. I will not hold my breath waiting for expressions of surprise on

this point.

For generations, the global Catholic Church, at leadership levels, has been deeply

invested in progressive coll ectivism. This has been an awkward relationship, in as

much as hardcore Marxism seeks to abolish religion in favor of the deification of the

State, and doctrinaire collectivism runs counter to any notion of the value of

individual souls. As a result, the Church has, at times, spoken with some force

against both communism and socialism.These moments of reasonableness have

allowed thoughtful Catholics to defend the Church's political position as basically

non-leftist: "See," they repeatedly tell themselves, "the Church is fighting the good

fight against Marxism."

In so far as Marxism includes atheism, the Church could hardly do otherwise. Soviet-

style Marxists openly declared religion their enemy, and persecuted believers.

Obviously the Church defended itself against this direct assault. But while abhorring

atheistic dialectical materialism, practical elements of Marxist theory -- "social

justice," economic redistribution, the condemnation of wealth -- struck a sympathetic

chord within the Church, which gradually adopted such Marxist language as its own.

This baptism of the Marxist vocabulary in the waters of Christian faith has allowed

generations of good men and women to deny the disturbing truth before their very

eyes, and to persuade themselves that this language, when used by the clergy, is

somehow legitimate Catholic moralism.

Thus in almost every instance in which progressive political forces have dispensed

with the anti-religious rhetoric, one may find priests and bishops standing on the side

of authoritarian collectivism, and against individual freedom. From the long Catholic-

communist alliance in the African National Congress (warmly praised a few weeks

ago by South Africa's Minister of Justice) to the role of the clergy in the radicalization

of Central and South America -- the birthplace of Marxist liberation theology -- the

pattern is monotonous. Pope Francis, though perhaps more moderate than other

Catholic leaders hailing from his part of the world, is representative of the

general trend.

Yes, it is a general trend, not simply a matter of wayward priests preaching in

isolation from the Church mainstream. (Consider that while Pope Benedict openly

criticized liberation theology, his successor hasinvited the movement's founder to

dinner.) In poor or developing nations in which Church leaders take a political stand
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of any clarity, that stand is almost invariably with progressivism. Papal encyclicals

that touch upon socioeconomic issues routinely attack "capitalism" and

"individualism" as inhumane and unjust forces, thus implying that less capitalism and

individualism would make society more humane and just. See Paul VI'sPopulorum

Progressio(1967), for example, which rejects the right to private property and

demands that "public authorities" (i.e. governments) solve the social injustice of menholding "surplus goods" for their own private use while others lack necessities (23).

As the latest example, we now have the Apostolic Exhortation,Evangelii Gaudium,of

Pope Francis, which includes substantial cribbing from the collected homilies of Karl

Marx:

Just as the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" sets a clear limit in order to safeguard

the value of human life, today we also have to say "thou shalt not" to an economy of

exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills....

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest,

where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people

find themselves excluded and marginalized....

Human beings [in a free market] are themselves considered consumer goods to

be used and then discarded.... (53)

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume

that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in

bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, whichhas never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and nave trust in the

goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the

prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting....

The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us

something new to purchase. In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of

opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us. (54)

(Notice that this " cultur e of prosperi ty"flies in the face of the earlier claim that

" masses of people fi nd themselves excluded and marginalized."Authoritarianism isirrational. Hence its proponents often enmesh themselves in logical contradictions, as

reason gives way to emotional appeals.)

Those lives supposedly "stunted,"not by political oppression, but by "the market,"

now "fail to move us." Move us to what, one might ask? To genuine charity, the

voluntary helping hand of the moral man? To dismantling the corporatist-progressive
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Ethics -- a non-ideological ethics -- would make it possible to bring about balance and

a more humane social order.... (57)

A financial reform open to such ethical considerations would require a vigorous

change of approach on the part of political leaders. I urge them to face this challenge

with determination and an eye to the future, while not ignoring, of course, thespecifics of each case. Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and

poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help,

respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and to the return of

economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings. (58)

Here Francis, an intelligent man, knowingly echoes the classic Marxist slogan,

" people before prof its."And yet immediately I hear apologists stepping in to object

to such "simplistic criticism" of the Church. After all, they say, who could object to

the Catholic tenets that men must not exalt money, and that the rich must help the

poor? The answer: no one. But the question is not whether mankind ought to worshipmoney, nor whether the wealthy ought to shirk their moral responsibilities. For those

are not the issues at stake in the Pope's "exhortation."

Notice that he is specifically calling onpolitical leadersand "financial experts" (57)

to undertake a "vigorous change" -- fundamental transformation, anyone? -- in the

direction of "balance" and a "more humane social order" which "favours human

beings." In other words, he is not advocating Christian charity, which is, and must be,

a private moral decision, since it is through the correct application of his God-given

free will that man is to find his path to God. Rather, to state the obvious -- let us

finally apply the famous "razor" of a truly great Catholic philosopher here, and

dispense with sophisticated explanations of the indefensible -- Francis is advocating

socialism: a political system which obviates the morality of free will, and thus

violates the foundations of the Catholic faith on the most profound level.

"But," defenders will say, "if he wanted socialism, why wouldn't he just say so?"The

reason is simple: he cannot. The Catholic Church has officially condemned socialism,

communism, and Marxism by name. Opposition to these three notions is a matter of

established Catholic doctrine. Non-Catholics may not understand what this means.

Catholics do, or should. No Pope will ever advocate socialism, communism, or

Marxism by name. Thus, one must infer meaning from the Pope's actual

arguments, and when this meaning flies in the face of the official rejection of

progressivism that every Catholic is doctrinally bound to espouse, one may

suppose that the inferred meaning represents the Pope's true position.

So there it stands. There are pro-North Korean priests. Catholic clergymen have stood

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America and Africa for generations. In the U.S., the Catholic bishops firmly and

enthusiastically supported ObamaCare, the penultimate step towards completely

socialized medicine, until they "discovered" -- or, I suspect, until the Catholic laity

discovered -- that abortion and birth control were part of the deal. Like their leaders

in Rome and their brothers throughout the Catholic world, the U.S. bishops

support progressivism in principle -- the Church has declared healthcare a

universal human right, an expressly socialist ploy -- but will criticize particular

progressive parties or factions when matters of doctrinal import are directly indispute.In effect, the Church's war against collectivist tyranny extends only so far as

that tyranny encompasses atheism or some other specific affront to Catholic practice.

(I have previouslydefended Rick Santorum, who caught hellfire from fellow

Catholics for making this point during his presidential campaign.)

In its socioeconomic position, a large proportion of today's Catholic hierarchy isunofficially progressive, socialist, even Marxist.And please do not cite Pope John

Paul II in disputing this judgment. One can no more absolve the Church of its role in

fostering global progressive authoritarianism by citing prominent exceptions than one

can excuse the U.S. Republican Party by mentioning Ronald Reagan, or the British

Tories by naming Margaret Thatcher. That there are freedom-loving rebels within a

decaying progressive institution is no counterargument, but only an exception that

proves the rule.

Likewise, there are marginalized priests and bishops who love the individual soul, and

see liberty as the only proper social condition for a Catholic life, in defiance of their

progressive leaders. These men deserve your love and support: they are martyrs.

All of this is immeasurably sad, and utterly inconsistent with the history of the

Church. In fact, as I haveexplained elsewhere,the case for limited government in the

name of respecting our natural moral freedom was given its first systematic defense

by St. Thomas Aquinas, whose conception of natural law, justice, and the role of

reason in ethics paved the way to the Enlightenment, and the development of the

natural rights theory which grounded modern liberty.

And as I have alsodiscussed elsewhere,Pope Leo XIII, inRerum Novarum, presented

a theological defense of private property rooted in man's individual nature that is as

impassioned and as well-reasoned as any offered by Locke. The corruptive influence

of progressivism, however, was already beginning to assert itself within the Church,

as throughout Europe and North America, by 1891. Thus Leo, after explaining

brilliantly why property is an inviolable right, proceeds to pull away from his own

reasoning and to hint, in explicitly Marxist language, at political means of

ameliorating material hardships, as though such means could ever be consistent with

Christianity's elevation of the individual soul and of free will. The progressive
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contradictions began to appear then, and have merely continued to grow within the

Church, as everywhere else in modern civilization, ever since.

The old saw that anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of educated liberals is very true

(or was -- anti-Semitism appears to have worked its way up the ranks these days). It is

for this reason that I generally refrain from expressing my own frustration with theChurch so bluntly. I suspect this same reticence has been protecting the Church from

honest, harsh criticism from its friends for generations.

Yes, I say its friends. I was baptized and raised Catholic. It is the Church of my

mother and of most of my relatives. As an undergraduate, I developed a lifelong

admiration for many of the medieval Catholic philosophers, men who sought to marry

the wisdom of ancient Greece to their sincere Christian faith, and thus set the stage for

the modern triumph of reason and individualism in morality and politics. I count St.

Thomas among my personal heroes and teachers, and return to him frequently for

insight on current and permanent questions.

I have come to realize, however, that if the Church as an institution must

consistently insist on allying itself with a philosophy that I regard, and that

history has repeatedly shown, to be one of death, inhumanity, oppression, and

the systematic demolition of any sensible understanding of human dignity (i.e., of

the divine spark within the human soul), then to mute one's criticism is to offer

tacit consent to the Church's radical realignment against every worthy sentiment

it once represented and championed on this Earth.

This has been an unpleasant article to write. But here it is. The Catholic Church is nomore defensible than any other institution that continues, against all historical

evidence, reason, and decency, to embrace and defend -- whether tacitly or openly --

the politics of mass envy, of collectivist authoritarianism, of coercive redistribution of

the fruits of men's labor, and of the practical denial of the basic right of self-

determination that ought to be at the core of a Catholic teaching that upholds the

dignity of every living soul.

ByDaren Jonescu / December 13, 2013 - 11:18:05 AM CST
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Communists Cheer Pope Francis

Shouldnt this trouble the Holy Father?

Irecently wrote here on the interesting embrace of Sister Simone Campbell and her Nuns on the

Bus, the self-described social-justice lobby of crusading liberal nuns. Embraced by whom?

Embraced by some curious bedfellows:Peoples World, house organ of Communist Party USA

and successor to theDaily Worker.

Its fascinating that after a century of denouncing, demonizing, jailing, and, in some cases, even

killing nuns and other religiousespecially in the Roman Catholic Churchcommunists have

suddenly embraced a group of nuns. Why? Because they agree with the nuns and their agenda.

Well, in that same spirit, I have an addendum, and it pains me to report this. It honestly does.

After decades of slandering, attacking, denigrating, and even trying to kill various popes in

the Roman Catholic Churchfrom Pope Pius XII to Pope John Paul II communists

are suddenly embracing a pope. Itis Pope Francis. Imagine my shock, as a Catholic convert

drawn to the Church initially in large part because of its stalwart anti-communism across

centuries, when I did my regular perusal ofPeoples Worldand found not one but two piecesexalting the Bishop of Rome.

The first, published September 27, 2013, was tellingly titled, Welcome Pope Francis,

campaigner against corporate greed!It began excitedly: The campaign against corporate

criminals and their gluttonous greed just added a new speaker wi th a very loud voice, Pope

Francis I.
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The article quoted the pontiff several times. To be sure, few of us would disagree with any of the

quotes. Indeed, thePeoples Worldcorrespondent, to his credit, noted that we shouldnt be

surprised at the Popes strong words against galloping greed and corporate despotism. Hes

repeating what has been part of of fi cial church teaching for the last 130 years or so, Catholi c

Social Thought. Catholic Social Thought, we shoul d note, is very pro-worker and pro-union.

Yes, it is. I t is also pro-property, which communism is not.The fir st principles of Kar l Marx,

stated unequivocall y in the Communist Manifesto, preached the abolition of private

property.ThePeoples Worldwriter, by harkening back 130 years, was probably referring to

the seminal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, which, for the record, insists that

a just society allow as many people as possible to become property owners.Ownership and

property are sacred ideals defended by the Catholic Church for millennia. It goes back to the

Mosaic Law and Gods commandments, beginning with Thou shall not steal.No one shoul d

steal someone elses property. Of course, communists did just that with militant, murderous

abandon.

So, Pope Francis is merely reaffirming what his predecessors preached in that

regard. But that raises an interesting question: Why are communists suddenl y

hai l ing the words of the pope?

Well, it appears they prefer the words and emphasis and intentions of this particular pope.

They trust him to take a stance closer to theirs.Consider the enthusiastic take ofPeoples

World: Pope Francis has provided a moral bully pulpit to rally the worlds workers in the

ongoing crusade against corporate greed.

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Workers of the world unite around the pope?A crusade by communists in

concert with the Vatican?

Thats the hope ofPeoples World: The presumed spiritual guide for one-seventh of the

people on the planet has a cer tain legitimacy when he speaks, after all. If Francis words can

marshal more people into the streets to stand up for our selves and against the capital ist

chieftains who rob us of our money, digni ty, self -respect, right to organize and r ight to keep

the fr ui tsall the fru itsof our labor, all the better . He might even pr ick the conscience of

a capitalist or two. Who knows?

Yeah, who knows? Who knew that communists would be on board with the Bishop of

Rome?


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This is something that Pope John Paul II couldnt have imagined merely eight years after the end

of a papacy that crushed the communist world and won the Cold War.

ButPeoples Worldwasnt finished with its encomiumsfor the new pontiff. That was clear three

days later in a September 30 opinion piece, likewise tellingly titled, Pope F rancis: a breath of

fr esh air.

The launch point for this piece was Francis recent controversial interview stating that the

Churchcannot insistonly on issues related to abortion, gay marr iage and the

use of contraceptive methods. To be fair to Francis,the biggest problem with that

interview wasnt so much what he saidas how it was interpreted by non-Catholics, anti-

Catholics, and dissenting Catholics. And this opinion piece inPeoples World, written by

columnist Henry Millstein, is a perfect illustration.

From the Peoples World

The piece stated: A recent interview with Pope Francis has excited Catholic and other

progressives and ruf f led the feathers of some Cathol ic conservativeswith good reason.

H is remarks poin t to a new atmosphere and attitude in the leadership of the Chur chand an

implicit rebuke to some U.S. bishops who have allied themselves with the political right.

Millstein argued that the most important point the pope madeconcerned issues like abortion,

contraception, gay marriage. Why should this matter to progressives?asked Millstein.Because Cathol ic (and other) r ight-wingers, including, lamentably, some bishops, have

latched on to this nar row set of issues to promote a broader r ight-wing agenda. I f the essence

of being Cathol ic is to oppose abortion, gay marr iage, and contraception, then fai thf ul

Cathol ics (and some other Chr istians) can easil y be hoodwinked in to supporti ng r ightist

candidates who l ine up wi th th is agenda, disregarding fl agrant violati ons of other aspects of

Cathol ic teaching. Pope Francis knocked the legs out f rom under this ploy.
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Millstein then delved into the Gospel message of Jesus Christ, lauding Francis interpretation,

especially in contrast to his two predecessors: [T]here does seem to be something new in

Francis attitude. In practice, John Paul II and BenedictXVI , despite their verbal

denunciati on of the ravages of capital ism,seemed more concerned with enforcing doctri nal

conformi ty, parti cularl y on certain i ssues involving sexual moral ity, than with pursuing active

solidari ty with capitalisms victims; f or i nstance, in appointing bishops they seem to have

pri vileged r igid orthodoxy over social conscience. Whil e it is obviously too early to discern f or

sure the direction Francis papacy will take, there are signs that he gives the pursuit of social

justice pr ior ityover enforcement of secondary points of church doctrine.

As one example, Millstein underscored the popes response to a question about gay priests. More

than that, however, he recommended that progressives should take advantage of this to

reinvigorate the relationship between the church and organized labor.

ThePeoples Worldwriter did not stop there, noting added signs from Francis that

progressives, and especially Communists, should take to heart and ponder(this included

the acknowledgement of mistakes).

Millstein concluded: We Communists have much to learn from Pope Francis.

In short, its no exaggeration to say that communists, like secular progressives,

are excited about this new pope, and not because theyre suddenly thinking about

becoming Catholic. No, they believe hes more like them. They like him because

they think he agrees with them. They like him because they think he agrees with

them not just on social justice and economics and the environment, but

because they like what they perceive is his de-emphasis on crucial aspects of the

Catholic faith that they heartily reject.

I know that some readers (faithful Catholics especially) will not like what Im reporting here.

Theyll insist that this pope is doing a good thing; hes reaching out to and impacting secularists,

agnostics, atheists, progressives, liberals, and even communists. He is indeed doing just that. I

appreciate it. In the spirit of Saint Francis, hes bringing the Gospel to the unconverted in a

rapidly secularizing world. I understand. I get it.

In fact, theres no question that Pope Francis is doing some really good things. His leadership on

Syria was superb, and genuinely produced much fruit. Hes preaching forgiveness, mercy,

humility, redemption, helping the poor, the Gospel. He is unquestionably pro-life and has made

some solid pro-life moves. He evenexcommunicated a dissident liberal priest who supported gay

marriage and female ordination. Im on his side. Were on the same team.
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But, in all due respect and deference, this man needs to be extremely careful about what hes

saying and how hes saying it, because every imprecise statement is ripe for severe

misinterpretation, exploitation, and abuse by enthusiasts and activists on the left.

His statement on abortion, contraception, and gay marriagewas utterly butchered and completely

misrepresented,most notably by the predictably awful but extremely influentialNew York Times.

Other troubling statements, however, have not been misrepresented at all. A recent

one,highlighted at TheAmerican Spectatorby George Neumayr,was this remark,made to a

prominent Italian atheist interviewer:Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to

encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.Interrupted by the amazed

interviewer, Francis doubled down: And I repeat it here. Everyone has his own idea of good

and evi l and must choose to foll ow the good and fi ght evil as he conceives them. That would be

enough to make the world a better place.

That statement is a jaw-dropper. Im saddened and sorry to say that I cannot, by any

stretch, defend that statement. As a Catholic convert regularly called upon to defend my

faith and various papal statements, thats one I will not be able to explain away. Lets be

honest: That remark is a disaster. Im stunned to hear it from a pope. It is a major, major

problem. All I can do is plea for a clarification or correction, which Ive yet to hear. Again,

this man needs to be extremely careful about what hes saying and how it will be received.

And so, back to my original point:

One manifestation of that is this: Communists, of all people, finally believe they

have a pope who agrees with them, that they like, that they can embrace, that theycan encourage.I knew that Francis controversial interview on abortion, contraception, and

gay marriage had thrilled liberals, liberal Catholics, dissident Catholics, secular progressives,

agnostics, atheists, and socialists. You can read their websites. They love this guy. But

communists?

It seems to me that this is not the kind of praise that the pope should want. Unless he takes steps

to clarify and be clearer, much of the confusion will be his own fault.

by Paul Kengor/ 4 October 2013

References:

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