Originally posted by @finnegan
Even the source you cited does not support what you said. Catholic social teaching is more akin to corporatism and frankly all too adjacent to Fascism, as witnessed in Franco's Spain for example and in Ireland for most of the 20th Century.
It is true that there are Marxist Catholics and in Latin America there was a tradition of "liberation theology" w ...[text shortened]... nd for a Marxist priesthood for very long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
How "fascist" does this sound:
Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the "economy of exclusion" that is taking hold today.
Francis made the appeal during a speech to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the heads of major U.N. agencies who are meeting in Rome this week."
In reality, this is not new for Pope Francis.
"Francis had a similar message to the World Economic Forum in January and in h is apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel." That document, which denounced trickle-down economic theories as unproven and naive, provoked criticism in the U.S. that he was Marxist.
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/pope-francis-legitimate-wealth-distribution
Or this:
1947 The equal dignity of human persons requires the effort to reduce excessive social and economic inequalities.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c2a3.htm
Or:
“The grave financial and economic crises of the present time ... have pushed man to seek satisfaction, happiness and security in consumption and earnings out of all proportion to the principles of a sound economy,” he said.
“The succession of economic crises should lead to a timely rethinking of our models of economic development and to a change in lifestyles,” he said.
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Francis said many places in the world were seeing a “serious rise” in inequality between people living side by side.
He attacked the “widening gap between those who have more and those who must be content with the crumbs”, calling on governments to implement “effective policies” to guarantee people’s fundamental rights, including access to capital, services, educational resources, healthcare and technology.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/pope-attacks-mega-salarie_n_4431701.html
Let me guess; he doesn't really mean it.