Last Wednesday, Pope Francis received a small delegation from the DIALOP group. DIALOP, according to its own website, is a “project of dialogue between Socialists/Marxists and Christians, involving intellectuals, academics, politicians, activists and students from several European Countries.”
Pope Francis told the communists, “Don’t back off”:
Today, in a world divided by war and polarization, we run the risk of losing the ability to dream. We Argentines say, “no te arrugues,” meaning “don’t back off.” This is my invitation to you as well: Don’t back off, don’t give up, and don’t stop dreaming of a better world.
In his remarks to the communist DIALOP group, Francis failed to mention Christ, Christianity, or the Catholic Church’s consistent condemnation of communism and socialism.
Catholic teaching against Communism has long been clear: Christianity and Communism do not mix. Writing in Quadragesimo Anno, Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) warned the entire Church about “the impious and iniquitous character of Communism.” In Divini Redemptoris, Pius XI wrote:
Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever. Those who permit themselves to be deceived into lending their aid towards the triumph of Communism in their own country will be the first to fall victims of their error. [Truer words were never spoken] And the greater the antiquity and grandeur of the Christian civilization in the regions where Communism successfully penetrates, so much more devastating will be the hatred displayed by the godless. [Translation: communism arises in priest-ridden countries, not Protestant ones, and when it comes to power, it viciously persecutes the Catholic Church.]
Pius XI was building upon the consistent teaching of his predecessors. Pius IX (1846-1878) wrote in 1846 an encyclical Qui pluribus describing Communism as “a doctrine most opposed to . . . natural law,” which would usher in “complete destruction of everyone’s laws, government, property, and even of human society itself.”
Describing Socialism as slightly less violent, Pius XI firmly prohibited any attempts to marry Socialism and Catholicism:
Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.
Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) wrote an 1878 encyclical, Quod Apostolici Muneris condemning Socialism as a “deadly plague that is creeping into the very fibers of human society and leading it on to the verge of destruction.”
Pope Benedict XVI’s 2005 encyclical Deus Caritas Est bore especial relevance to Francis’ condoning of the Catholic-Marxist collaboration. The late pontiff noted that Catholic charitable activity must not be done alongside Marxist intervention, but be independent and centrally Catholic:
Christian charitable activity must be independent of parties and ideologies. It is not a means of changing the world ideologically, and it is not at the service of worldly stratagems, but it is a way of making present here and now the love [of God] which man always needs.
By contrast to his predecessors, Francis praised DIALOP as “a fine program.” Francis has deep ties to the Left. He has increasingly aligned himself with globalism and the United Nations. Pope Francis is the father of a little-known organization called the Global Compact on Education (GCE), which aims to promote education along the lines preferred by the United Nations bureaucracy, emphasizing “sustainable” living and “gender equality.”
Pope Francis has also launched “the Council for Inclusive Capitalism” which is committed to promoting “environmental, social, and governance measures (ESG).” In case you have not been paying attention, ESG (like DEI) is a way of imposing Marxist goals on for-profit corporations, governing them according to Leftist political goals rather than the guardrails of free market capitalism, which are to provide consumers with the goods and services they want to purchase, and thereby maximize profits and stockholder value.
Remarkably, Pope Francis’ “inclusive capitalism,” by working to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, is actually promoting population control and abortion! This is a pope only Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum could love.
Source article at LifeSite News
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