Now people complain about taxes and government control but spout utter garbage whenever the Catholic Church says Catholics should get back to what they were doing when Christian charity helped keep government in check. It's not just the Catholic Church, either, any church that would start to advocate the sort of network the YMCA/YWCA once was would be similarly attacked.
Obviously people who want to attack Christians are going to attack them no matter what they do. Especially the folks who blather about "liquidate everything they have" who like the idea of there being no infrastructure for Christians to use in doing what Christ tells us to do.
With the level of taxation and destruction of intact families that is impossible at this point.
The collapse is coming, and since the strong centralized government destroyed all the smaller institutions below it people are going to have nothing. No family, no charities, no freedom.
All of this because the Churches spent the last 100 years urging its flock to commit the sins of theft and envy.
While they may have materially helped the poor they destroyed the souls of the poor. Single motherhood, bastardy, and irresponsibility are subsidized while good behavior is punished.
The slick politicians that were willing to do the stealing were also the same ones who forced abortion and gay marriage on the culture..
When these Social Justice and Liberation Theology Christians meet there maker do you think "We only wanted to help the poor" is going to be sufficient excuse for the total destruction of society they are responsible for?
You are correct. So what does this Pope want?