True Christianity has the glorification of God, and the salvation of souls as its mission. Marxism rejects this. It would be difficult to prove that the Vatican II Church has as its mission the glorification of God or the salvation of souls. When those aims are pushed aside, I can see how someone would make this mistake. How many people say, quite ignorantly, “Communism is good, on paper?”
In the material world, Christianity is expressed by the corporal works of mercy. Indeed, Communism gives lip service to the material well-being of all people. In practice (and the examples are now too many to doubt) communism serves only the elite while crushing everyone else. In practice the Apostolic Church completes not only the corporal acts of mercy but the spiritual ones as well, being concerned …More
In the material world, Christianity is expressed by the corporal works of mercy. Indeed, Communism gives lip service to the material well-being of all people. In practice (and the examples are now too many to doubt) communism serves only the elite while crushing everyone else. In practice the Apostolic Church completes not only the corporal acts of mercy but the spiritual ones as well, being concerned if not focused on each person’s eternal salvation rather than the trifles of our short stint on Earth.
An interesting question is, since His Holiness likes to think Hell is empty, does he like to think our Lord’s words on Heaven are also a fiction? I’m asking for a friend.
