The Church has noted that socialism often mimics Christian ideals, but the Church concludes that socialism, even moderated, remains incompatible with truth.
Right to Private Property Articles
Affordable Housing and Catholic Social Teaching
The lack of housing…should be seen as a summing-up of shortcomings: economic, social, cultural or simply human in nature.
What is Democratic Socialism?
Democratic socialism reduces mankind into economic elements. The Catholic Church rejects that human beings can be so understood.
Rerum Novarum was groundbreaking in addressing the struggles of the working class and societal challenges during the Industrial Revolution.…
Karl Marx's greatest error was anthropological. He thought that once the economy had been put right, everything would automatically be put right.…
Socialism disposes of the right to private property and hands over the production of goods to the state.…
The top 10 Pope Leo XIII quotes on private property, all of which come from his landmark encyclical, Rerum Novarum.…
"The seventh commandment requires…respect for the right to private property". (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2401)…
It's misunderstood primarily because of the inability to differentiate between the “twofold character of ownership”: (Pope Pius XI) As Pope Leo XIII made clear: “The…
List of Articles
- A Rerum Novarum Summary
- Affordable Housing and Catholic Social Teaching
- Karl Marx and Catholic Social Teaching
- Marxism vs. Catholic Social Teaching: Where They Overlap—and Why They Ultimately Clash
- The Gig Economy and Rerum Novarum
- The Often Misunderstood Right to Private Property
- The Rise of Shoplifting
- Top 10 Pope Leo XIII Quotes on Private Property
- What is Democratic Socialism?
- What is Socialism?
