The Catholic Principle of Subsidiarity (upon which "distributism" relies) is tossed out the window when calls by popes and green patriarchs for "global regulatory norms...needed to impose obligations and prevent unacceptable actions" (LS, #173) are put on the table.
It is true that the Church has consistently condemned communism, but since the election of Pope Francis, communism is once again rearing its ugly head and is now being advanced by prelates at the highest levels of the Church under the guise of "liberation theology".
“The Catholic Principle of Subsidiarity (upon which “distributism” relies) is tossed out the window when calls by popes and green patriarchs for “global regulatory norms...needed to impose obligations and prevent unacceptable actions” (LS, #173) are put on the table.”
Distributism is grounded in the economic system of the pre 4th Crusade Byzantine Empire. Do you suppose that Subsidiarity is likewise Byzantine or are we looking at a fortuitous coincidence?
Do you honestly think that the Church of Rome is going commie? Really? As for calling for “global regulatory norms”, isn’t that what The Church does? Is dying to the self, becoming like God, as +Athanasius the Great says, different for a, for example, Chinese or Ugandan than it is for a Western European?