ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM - ENCYCLICAL LETTER PIUS XI - 3 OF 3
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SPREAD OF COMMUNISM EXPLAINED
15. (Alluring Promises) ... The explanation lies in the fact that too few have been able to grasp the nature of communism. The majority instead succumb to its deception, skillfully concealed by the most extravagant promises. By pretending to desire only the betterment of the condition of the working-classes, by urging the removal of the very real abuses chargeable to the liberalistic economic order and by demanding a more equitable distribution of the world's goods (objectives entirely and undoubted legitimate.)
The communist takes advantage of the present world's economic crisis to draw into the sphere of his influence even those sections of the populace which on principle reject all forms of materialism and terrorism. And as every error contains its element of truth, the partial truths to which we have referred are astutely presented according to the needs of time and place, to conceal, when convenient, the repulsive crudity and inhumanity of communistic principles.
Thus the communist ideal wins over many of the better minded members of the community. These in turn become the apostles of the movement among younger intelligentsia who are still too immature to recognize the intrinsic errors of the system.
The preachers of communism are also proficient in exploiting racial antagonism and political divisions and oppositions. They take advantage of the lack of orientation characteristic of modern agnostic science in order to burrow into the universities, where they bolster up the principles of their doctrine with pseudo-scientific arguments.
16. ... remember that the way had already prepared for it by the religious and moral destitution in which wage-earners had been left by liberal economics. Even on Sundays and holy-days, labor-shifts were given no time to attend to their essential religious duties. No one thought of building churches within convenient distance of factories, nor facilitating the work of priests....
Doctrine of the Church/God the Supreme Reality
26. Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation of the impudent falsehoods of communism. In truth, it is not because men believe in God that he exists rather because He exists do all men whose eyes are not deliberately closed to the truth believe in Him and pray to Him.
Man and Family according to Reason and Faith
27. In the Encyclical on Christian Education: We explained the fundamental doctrine concerning man as it may gathered from reason and Faith. Man has a spiritual and immortal soul. He is a person marvelously endowed by his creator with gifts of body and mind.
He is a true "microcosm", as the ancients said, a world in miniature, with a value far surpassing that of vast inanimate cosmos. God alone is his last end, in this life and in the next. By sanctifying grace he is raised to the dignity of a son of God, and incorporated into the Kingdom of God in the Mystical Body of Christ. In consequence he has been endowed by God with many and varied prerogatives: the right to life, to bodily and integrity, to the necessary means of existence, the right to attend to his ultimate goal in the path marked out to him by God; the right of association and the right to possess and use property. ....
Social-Economic Order
31. The directive principles concerning the social-economic order have been expounded in the social Encyclical of Leo XIII on the question of labor. Our Encyclical on the Reconstruction of the Social Order adapted these principles to present needs. Then insisting anew on the age-old doctrine of the Church concerning the individual and social character of private property, we explained clearly the right and dignity of labor, the relations of mutual aid and collaboration which should exist between those who possess capital and those who work, the salary due in strict justice for himself and family.
32. ... saving the world today from lamentable ruin into which amoral liberalism has plunged us, are neither the class struggle nor terror, yet the autocratic abuse of State power, but rather the infusion of social justice and the sentiment of Christian love into the social-economic order. We have indicated how a sound prosperity is to be restored according to the true principles of a sane corporate system which respects the proper hierarchic structure be fused into an harmonious unity inspired by the principles of the common good....
George H. Kubeck
P.S. Left-wing progressive or Obama social justice is not Christian or Catholic social justice. Period!
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