An argument can be made that Santo’s and Huckster’s brand of big government welfare interventionism that drives people into the arms of government is morally bankrupt and sinful by its nature.
Pope Benedict called the social justice theology and the “collective Salvation” that came with it, demonically inspired.
I’m not Catholic but I agreed with him 100%. It doesn’t save my soul to force another man to help and it doesn’t save his soul for me to steal from him to help others. It just offers the fantasy of everybody being absolved of responsibility for their own salvation.