Whether fully accurate or not, the great unfairness done to the Church is not recognizing it is a SPIRITUAL endeavor.
The Church cannot approve abortions or homosexuality, despite what liberals want.
The Church is going to help illegal aliens despite conservatives (me included) believing there is no legal justification.
The Church is going to look at the human/spiritual dimension of the modern workplace, not the bottom line.
You just can’t and shouldn’t make the Church agree with a Wall Street Journal editor, or a politician.
Were you responding to me?
I have no essential disagreements with your statement.
I’m not sure what you mean, here. Are you saying that the Church agrees that it is right to forcibly seize the property of some men to give to others (see “stealing”), no matter how needy?
Because, if so, the Church is in direct rebellion against God and His commandments (”Thou shalt NOT steal”).
Socialism, no matter in what form, or committed by whom, is a defiance of God’s Word.
Though economics are as much a moral issue as any other. The Pope’s socialist views are an unfortunate impediment to people’s mobility and do not confront the doctrine of sharia directly enough.
WE cannot forget that that David Ricardo and Karl Marx looked upon men and women as purely economic beings. Neither is compatible with Christian thought. The only advantage of economic liberalism over Marxism is that it does not idolize the state. It does leave room for intermediate social institutions. However, it leads to cartels that join with the state to reduce the power of such institutions.