Nazi Policy and the Catholic Church
KAROL JOZEF GAJEWSKI Though Hitler felt a particular urgency — and hatred — when dealing with Jews and Communists, he viewed the Catholic Church as a pernicious opponent, a deeply-entrenched threat that must be controlled and eventually uprooted from German life in order to establish his promised Thousand-Year-Reich. From his early years of political dreaming, […]
Why the Church Rejects Communism
Andrew Swafford July 23, 2018 When St. John Paul II reflected upon the fall of communism, he insisted that it was a mistake to view its failure simply as a matter of economic inefficiency. On the one hand, there is some truth to the following quip: socialism distributes wealth, it doesn’t create it. And others have […]
The Catholic Case Against Communism
COMMENTARY: What Karl Marx said about Christians, Jews and Blacks underscores the radical divide between communist ideology and Catholic doctrine. By Paul Kengor In July 2019,Americamagazine, the top Jesuit publication, published a piece titled, “The Catholic Case for Communism,” with an accompanying photo of Bolivian leader Evo Morales handing a “communist crucifix” to Pope Francis. […]