Ambiguity is very anti-Catholic. Truth is alway clear and concise in Catholic teaching and never skirted. You never couch evil in terms to make it appear “acceptable”.
Communism is when the State steals money from the productive to redistribute it and it is ALWAYS evil-—just like any theft of private property.
Charity is ALWAYS voluntary and can’t be performed by government. Forced “moral” behavior ( like it always is in Communism) is NEVER moral behavior.
This Orwellian speak-—where this pope seems to be wishy-washy—really bothers me. Just like “Liberation Theology” is Marxism and godless and evil -—as Pope Benedict XVI stated, and ALL other popes who for over a century wrote how EVIL Communism and Marxism and islam is.
Truth/God (and God’s Laws) never change and destroyingTraditions (Vatican II) is pure Marxism.
What we’re seeing is the globalization of liberation theology via the Pope.
Christ taught us to love our neighbors from the heart, not hand that off to someone or something else, even the church. Remember, even Christ didn’t set himself and the Apostles up as a great collection agency to distribute goods to the poor.
If the Pope were really serious, he would inspire each individual to go out with charity, not condemn economic systems of which he has little understanding.
“...private property...”
can you agree that rights to property must be defined by those who protect those rights?
if you cannot, who do you think shd define those rights?