Francis Cozies Up to Communists
May 15, 2015
Francis and Raul Castro
APPARENTLY, Jorge Bergoglio, not being a Catholic himself, is unaware that Catholics are forbidden to be buddies with Communists, such as Raul Castro, President of Cuba.
Communism is, by decree of the Holy Office in 1949, “materialistic and anti-Christian. ” See here and here. Here are the words of Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931:
We make this pronouncement: 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. . . .
120. If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.
In related news, see this interview at Tradition in Action with a former Communist spy who insists the Soviet KGB was the origin of the Liberation Theology movement, which this pseudo-pontiff supports.
