“Does it make any sense today to write an encyclical to condemn communism? Or to condemn national socialism? No, they are dead, they are not the problem. Capitalism is the problem.”

We must be clear. Catholic social teaching is neither capitalism nor socialism.

Rocco “Buttiglione

It is also important to stress that the Church does not pass a scientific judgment on capitalism…the Church passes an ethical judgment. It says: You can’t let people die of hunger. You can’t be happy in a world in which other human beings suffer, or are marginalized. 10% of people today in the world suffer from hunger. That means some 800 million people! What shall we do about it? 

That has a lot to do with Christianity because Christianity is an experience of the communion of persons. Recognizing Christ as our true personality, we become part of one another. Pope Francis would say that a missionary disciple is a man who when he says “I”, encompasses within this “I” his wife, his children, families of his friends, his parents, his city, and all of mankind. And when I say “I”, I can’t say it while forgetting about the poor. I can’t have a self-consciousness that doesn’t encompass the demands of the poor. I can’t be happy if so many people around me are unhappy.

It seems that we live in a system in which the main purpose is to produce what Marx would have called “exchange value” and not “use value.” We live in order to make money, we don’t make money in order to live, and some are excluded from the human community because they don’t produce anymore. On the other hand, there are people who produce money until the end of their lives, and when they die they are completely worn out and alienated. They haven’t lived a meaningful life. And worse, they have lost contact with their children, and they have no friends. So every time the Church preaches the Gospel of social justice, she doesn’t only look after the poor, but also after the wealthy.”— Rocco Buttliglione

Rocco “Buttiglione is a Professor of political science at Saint Pius V University in Rome, and member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He served as a minister for EU policies (from 2001 to 2005) and then as Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities (from 2005 to 2006) in Silvio Berlusconi‘s governments. In 2005 Buttiglione received an honorary doctoral degree from Guatemalan Francisco Marroquín University^[1] for his commitment to the ideas of liberty. — Wikipedia

“No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist ” — Pius XI, Quad. Anno (1931)

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