Wow!
I’m sorry.
I especially like “He is particularly concerned about the extent to which the role of charity has been replaced by the activity of the State in modern economies.”
I already donate money to church or even to help neighbors (times are hard) and I would donate more if I got to keep the some of what the State takes from me.
I would also point out that the definitive Catholic criticism of socialism was laid out 100+ years ago by Pope Leo XIII. It has not been repealed or abrogated.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/L13APOST.HTM
Here’s a little tidbit:
“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. “