Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?: The Answer Is No - Here's Why

Common Sense About the Common Good Pope Leo XIII wrote of the "harvest of misery" that socialism brings. Pius XI said it's impossible to be a good Catholic and a good socialist. John Paul II spent his papacy combating socialism's dehumanizing statism. Yet somehow this long-discredited economic philosophy is making a comeback, not only on college campuses and political talk shows but among sincere Catholics. Some think it could be the answer to greed and globalism. Some even argue that it's ...