CORRECTION:The Pope speaks on economic issues: wealth is not "rightly distributed and equitably made available..."

Pope Pius XI the "Communist"

NOTE: When this post was originally published on February 6, 2020, comments were sent to the combox denouncing Pope Pius XI as a "communist". I have had this experience on a previous occasion when as with this post, a photo of Pope Francis and his name was accidentally published with the original post. The comments out of Christian charity were not published. 

The uncharitable view would be to presume they wrote out of hatred for Pope Francis. I will take the charitable view, that they wrote out of ignorance of Catholic doctrine. This brings us full circle: many (the the majority?) of "Catholics" who are denouncing Pope Francis as a "heretic" etc., are themselves very likely guilty of material heresy. It is frightening to think that there are Catholics out there denouncing Francis who themselves are hard core heretics. To read the following words by Pius XI and conclude it is "communist" is mind boggling! It reveals not only the ignorance of Catholic doctrine, but the depth of liberalism that has turned most Catholics ' minds to mush. Some may even attend Latin Masses, perhaps even rattle off Rosaries... but they are immersed in liberalism. This is an example of why we are in this mess today:  Catholics in the 30s, 40s, and 50s had already lost the Faith. They did NOT know doctrine, and they were already seduced into the fantasy world of liberalism. The Japanese Catholics did not have Mass for hundreds of years; but they had persecution, and they had the Faith. 

This cannot be said of our apostate generation that has turned religion into dirty politics. 

HERE IS THE POST.

The Popes over the past 100 plus years, have from time to time addressed economic issues. From Leo XIII to the present, Popes have commented on economic issues that may have moral implications and therefore on the spiritual welfare of peoples.

The other day Pope Francis addressed the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, speaking on issues of the common good, social justice, the huge inequality between the poor and extremely wealthy. Here we quote from [original post had "Francis"] Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno (No.58-61) 

To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice. 

...certainly the condition of the workers has been improved and made more equitable especially in the more civilized and wealthy countries where the workers can no longer be considered universally overwhelmed with misery and lacking the necessities of life....Added to them is the huge army of rural wage workers, pushed to the lowest level of existence and deprived of all hope of ever acquiring "some property in land", and, therefore, permanently bound to the status of non-owning worker unless suitable and effective remedies are applied. 

Yet while it is true that the status of non owning worker is to be carefully distinguished from pauperism, nevertheless the immense multitude of the non-owning workers on the one hand and the enormous riches of certain very wealthy men on the other establish an unanswerable argument that the riches which are so abundantly produced in our age of "industrialism," as it is called, are not rightly distributed and equitably made available to the various classes of the people. 

Therefore, with all our strength and effort we must strive that at least in the future the abundant fruits of production will accrue equitably to those who are rich and will be distributed in ample sufficiency among the workers - not that these may become remiss in work, for man is born to labor as the bird to fly - but that they may increase their property by thrift, that they may bear, by wise management of this increase in property, the burdens of family life with greater ease and security, and that, emerging from the insecure lot in life in whose uncertainties non-owning workers are cast, they may be able not only to endure the vicissitudes of earthly existence but have also assurance that when their lives are ended they will provide in some measure for those they leave after them.