Stare directly at this headline from the Catholic News Agency:
Again, not some anti-Catholic agency reporting the headline. THE CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY WROTE THAT.
This week, Pope Francis called for cooperation and dialogue between Catholics and Marxists to increase. He said they both are searching for the "common good," because, you know, Marxist efforts to achieve the common good have proved so successful to this point.
Now to the article:
"I thank you for your commitment to dialogue," the pope said in a private meeting on Jan. 10 with 15 representatives of DIALOP (Transversal Dialogue Project), an association of European leftist politicians and academics that seeks to bridge Catholic social teaching and Marxist theory.
"There is always a great need for dialogue, so do not be afraid," the pope said during the event at the Paul VI Audience Hall.
These are MARXISTS he's talking to!
Don't back off, don't give up, and don't stop dreaming of a better world. For it is in imagination, the ability to dream, that intelligence, intuition, experience, and historical memory come together to make us be creative, take chances, and run risks.
If you don't know, Marxism is completely incompatible with Christianity. There's a reason atheism is mandated in most communist nations. Marx wrote that religion was the "opium of the people" and "the soul of soulless conditions." He believed that religion exploited people who were seeking comfort from exploitation, and that one day they would throw off its shackles and embrace the true freedom of communism.
From Marx:
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
The Catholic Church has stood for more than a century against this poison that denies our sinful nature, our inalienable rights, our need for a savior, and the hope of resurrection. Marxism directly attacks the foundation of the Christian faith and our forefathers knew it. When a Christian says he wants a Marxist to help him find the common good, he might as well say cancer should help him find health!
Pope Pius XII created the Decree against Communism in his role as pope. Pope John Paul II was a world leader in denouncing Communism as well. As far back as 1849 it has been part of Catholic teaching that Communism and Marxism are anti-Christian and must be opposed.
But Pope Francis is going to move the Catholic Church past that, I guess.
Cuz REAL Marxism hasn't been tried!
More from the pope:
Growth in justice requires more than economic growth, while presupposing such growth: It requires decisions, programs, mechanisms, and processes specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment, and an integral promotion of the poor, which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.
This wasn't a short meet and greet.
The pope was very interested in this meeting with radical lefties.
Vatican News noted that the Jan. 10 audience was "not a short greeting but an interview that lasted with spontaneous questions and answers for about 40 minutes."
Back to Marx with this quote that might as well come from the devil himself:
Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
The pope is flirting at length with a philosophy that might be the most satanic, most genocidal, most total rejection of Christ that has ever existed.
THE ACTUAL HECK?
"Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret." - Ephesians 5:8b-12
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