——The Catholic Church is, at it’s heart and soul, liberal and socialist.-—
I can see how you could draw that conclusion from observing the USCCB. But authority begins with the bishop, and ends with the Vatican.
The Church has criticized communism and socialism in the harshest terms, when teaching authoritatively.
Sample from Pope Leo XIII:
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, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning - the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.
Quite a prophetic statement, for 1878.
Look at the fight over illegal immigrants.
Yes, and Leo III was prescient, a man of moral and intellectual clarity.
Sadly, the Church itself did not listen to his clarity and went astray in the 50’s and 60’s.
And here we are today.
I’ll bet if you took the date and author off the Encyclical on Socialism and presented it to... oh, a dozen priests and a dozen bishops today, almost all the priests and perhaps half the bishops would react rather forcefully against it.