Tea at Trianon: Why the Church Condemns Communism

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, May 7, 2018

Why the Church Condemns Communism

From ChurchPop:

Private property is not a social construct that can be done away with at will. Rather, it is a part of the natural social order and is necessary for society to be healthy and just. Private property is the natural fruit of work and protects human dignity since it “assures a person a highly necessary sphere for the exercise of his personal and family autonomy.” Thus, it is “an essential element of an authentically social and democratic economic policy, and it is the guarantee of a correct social order.” (CSDC 176) Programs to eliminate private property, Pope Leo XIII warned in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, are “emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.” (Read more.)

From Zero Hedge:

Karl Marx was born 200 years ago today [May 5, 2018]. And despite the utter failure of his communist philosophy in practice, the cult lives on. Still people want to try again… this time they will get it right. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels originally published The Communist Manifesto in 1848. It laid out the beliefs and action plan of the Communist Party. The goal was to get communists of every nationality to rise up and unite to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors.” Little did they know their words would be used by the likes of Stalin and Mao as justification for over 100 million murders meant to supposedly move society forward. (Read more.)