Socialists Want to Destroy the Base of Society
In order to warn our readers about the horrors of Socialism, we bring
their attention to some texts of papal teachings previous to Vatican II
on this matter.
This seems to be particularly opportune in an year in which Catholics in
the United States will go to the polls to vote for President. We should
all be able to examine the platforms of the candidates to see who is
pro or against Socialism.
The following short text by Leo XIII clearly states the danger.
The following short text by Leo XIII clearly states the danger.
Pope Leo XIII
When the fear of God and the respect due to His divine laws is
suppressed, the respect for the authority of Rulers despised, the mania
for revolution is given free course and stimulated, and the popular
passions urged on to lawlessness with no
restraints save that of punishment, then a universal revolution and
the ruin of all
institutions will necessarily follow. This is, in truth, the
deliberated and explicit goal put forward by many communist and
socialist associations.
Leo XIII, Encyclical Humanum genus, of April 20, 1884,
Petropolis: Vozes, 1955, § 23, pp. 20-21
Petropolis: Vozes, 1955, § 23, pp. 20-21
