The truth is, the Catholics are against Communists who don't recognize the authority of the Pope. If you allow the Roman Empire to collect tithes and own properties tax-free, you can be as Communist as you want. In fact, going back to the feudal system they brutally exploited for hundreds of years would suit them just fine.
Leaving aside the remark about the distant past, I would say don’t under estimate the teaching on subsidiarity. Bear in mind that the liberal Catholics get the press, and, yes, there are too many of them.
And just as too many Jews were welcomed by liberals and shunned by conservatives in the early part of the last century, so also the Democrats gave a place to immigrant Catholics which conservatives denied them. This unfortunate fact of the recent past is still working its way out.
My large university parish is a hot-bed of conservatism. There are more politically conservative Catholics than you might imagine, and we have subsidiarity as a strongly articulated principle. The press won’t get it, because they don’t get much. But it’s there and it’s important.
A statement born of ignorance.
“The truth is, the Catholics are against Communists who don’t recognize the authority of the Pope.”
Which communists and which country? It’s easy to throw that accusation out there, but please be specific.
BTW, tell me which communists are in open cooperation with the Church and recognize the Pontiff’s primacy? Brazil and Venezuela don’t. They interfere with the Church regularly because of its teachings.
China will only recognize their very own Patriotic Catholic Church and not the Pontiff. The Underground Catholic Church in China in fidelity with the Pontiff is undergoing such persecution that I will not write of it here. It is too brutal.
USSR, the Eastern Blocks now consigned to the dustbin of history with their communist governments? The Communist government of Poland overthrown by a mere mortal backed by the power of the Holy Spirit and full weight of Christ’s own Church in the form of John Paul II?
“In fact, going back to the feudal system they brutally exploited for hundreds of years would suit them just fine”
And you came to this conclusion, how?