(6322,2146,1,'','2025-05-01 00:06:00',873,23640,'2ad59179f4edf583cf85f3c5d36a1b6b2ae04990','{\"id\":2146,\"asset_id\":\"2458\",\"title\":\"April 30,\\u00a02025 - \\u00a0Stay Over the Target! -\\u00a0Karen Hardin\",\"alias\":\"april-30-2025-stay-over-the-target-karen-hardin\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>April 30,&nbsp;2025 - &nbsp;Stay Over the Target! -&nbsp;Karen Hardin<\\/h1>\\r\\n<p><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/62a3910d-af03-efe6-81f5-07d03883c979.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"232\\\" height=\\\"155\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" hspace=\\\"10\\\" \\/><\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">(NOTE: The message that Karen posted for our www.CityByCityPrayer.org email on Monday, was so powerful, we felt to share it with our Destiny Builders Ministries contacts as well. For those that are on both lists, we apologize for this repeated content.)<br \\/><br \\/><strong>DON\'T&nbsp; BACK DOWN<\\/strong><br \\/> The Bible instructs us not to grow weary in doing what He has called us to do. It is followed by the encouragement that in due season we <em>will<\\/em> reap if we faint not. Many have felt like fainting as the battles you are facing seem unrelenting.&nbsp;If that is you, I encourage you,<strong> don\\u2019t back down<\\/strong>!<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">If we look back through the Bible,&nbsp;we can see a pattern that the more intense the battle\\/spiritual warfare, it is an indicator that not only are you right over the target, but breakthrough is near\\u2014if you don\\u2019t quit.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The Old Testament accounts give us a great first hand view of that principle how God can and does intervene in our lives. Over and over in those accounts, we see that people who put their trust in God, came out on top\\u2014against all odds. And it was always because of the God factor.<\\/p>\\r\\n<ul style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\r\\n<li>Elijah vs Jezebel<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>Nehemiah vs Sanballot<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>Mordecai vs Hamon<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>David vs Goliath<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>David vs King Saul<\\/li>\\r\\n<\\/ul>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">What did all of those scenarios have in common? The Enemy wanted to destroy them! They weren\\u2019t small battles, but intense life and death battles.<\\/p>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/62a3910d-af03-efe6-81f5-07d03883c979.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"563.8214721679688\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>April 30,&nbsp;2025<br \\/><br \\/> (NOTE: The message that Karen posted for our www.CityByCityPrayer.org email on Monday, was so powerful, we felt to share it with our Destiny Builders Ministries contacts as well. For those that are on both lists, we apologize for this repeated content.)<br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<p><strong>Stay Over the Target!<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<p><strong>DON\'T&nbsp; BACK DOWN<\\/strong><br \\/> The Bible instructs us not to grow weary in doing what He has called us to do. It is followed by the encouragement that in due season we <em>will<\\/em> reap if we faint not. Many have felt like fainting as the battles you are facing seem unrelenting.&nbsp;If that is you, I encourage you,<strong> don\\u2019t back down<\\/strong>!<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> If we look back through the Bible,&nbsp;we can see a pattern that the more intense the battle\\/spiritual warfare, it is an indicator that not only are you right over the target, but breakthrough is near\\u2014if you don\\u2019t quit.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The Old Testament accounts give us a great first hand view of that principle how God can and does intervene in our lives. Over and over in those accounts, we see that people who put their trust in God, came out on top\\u2014against all odds. And it was always because of the God factor.<br \\/> &nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<ul>\\r\\n<li>Elijah vs Jezebel<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>Nehemiah vs Sanballot<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>Mordecai vs Hamon<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>David vs Goliath<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>David vs King Saul<\\/li>\\r\\n<\\/ul>\\r\\n<p>&nbsp;<br \\/> What did all of those scenarios have in common? The Enemy wanted to destroy them! They weren\\u2019t small battles, but intense life and death battles.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Now take a moment and think of any present day \\u201cDavid and Goliath\\u201d battles that you have witnessed that were won in your own life or in your community. Remember, <strong>God has never stopped intervening in the lives of His people who put their trust in Him!<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> So what are you facing today? Or what about your children? What area seems to be insurmountable and make you feel like fainting? Because the Word says you WILL reap if you faint not!<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/><strong>OUR EXPERIENCE<\\/strong><br \\/> Years ago, there was a time when my husband and I were facing possible bankruptcy due to a business deal that had gone south. An individual who had sold us some properties, didn\\u2019t fulfill his&nbsp;side of the contract. It resulted in a negative and irreparable cash flow,&nbsp;that was draining our finances. For two years we kept things afloat as the man insisted he would make it right. But he never did. And as we waited the situation had grown desperate. As we sought counsel, on the outward, we were told there was no hope for the wrong to be righted legally due to a contract loophole. But as we prayed, God said otherwise. So we chose to trust that God would deliver us.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> I\\u2019m not gonna lie. It was incredibly hard and pushed our faith and stamina to the limits. In the natural we&nbsp;were going to have to file bankruptcy due to what this man had done. Week after week, just staying afloat and paying bills felt overwhelming. But we continued to pray and declare God\\u2019s Word, often in tears, even as we sought legal mediation. In the end, and despite the fact we had been told by several that turnaround was impossible, the situation completely reversed! The man had to make compensation for not fulfilling his side of the contract! And in a moment, what had been an overwhelming battle, was over!<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/><strong>DO YOU HAVE A RED SEA CHALLENGE FACING YOU?<\\/strong><br \\/> Remember Moses and the Israelites? God raised Moses up to lead them out of slavery. Moses with his rod against Pharaoh. It was laughable in the natural. Who was Moses after all? The more he went before Pharaoh, the more intense the situation got to the point that his own people wanted him to stop! Why? Because they were looking with natural eyes, while Moses was hearing from the Spirit how to press in. Make no mistake, there were times Moses wanted to stop! But thank God he didn\\u2019t. Even after the Israelites were released, they faced the most intense battle yet\\u2014the Red Sea before them and Pharaoh\\u2019s army behind them. It was the epitome of an impossible situation.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> But God. Are you up against the Red Sea one way and an enemy the other?<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Remember God intervened. The water parted and they marched across ON DRY GROUND to the other side. When Pharaoh\\u2019s army tried to pursue them\\u2014the water came down and completely destroyed them.<br \\/><br \\/> What Pharaoh intended to do to Moses, happened to Egypt and his army. That\\u2019s what happens when God fights for us.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The battle you are facing\\u2014those who are pursuing you, attacking you or mocking you\\u2014have no idea that<strong> if you won\\u2019t give up\\u2014God will intervene. <\\/strong>Because while they think they can overcome you, they have no idea they are battling Him! If you won\\u2019t stop, God <em>will<\\/em> part YOUR&nbsp;Red Sea so that you can walk across to the other side. Natural battles, when we are trusting God and following His ways, have supernatural interventions available, if we won\\u2019t grow weary and give up. And then, just as our situation years ago\\u2014in an instant, it was resolved. For Moses and the Israelites, in a moment, it changed as the waters came crashing down on those pursuing them. Don\\u2019t let the battle overwhelm you. <strong>Remember who battles for you. <\\/strong><br \\/><br \\/><em>Father, I declare You are King and Lord over my life, my family, and my city, state and nation. I will not stop declaring that truth! Instead, <strong>I declare that the natural circumstances and battle that has risen up against me&nbsp;must align with Your Word.<\\/strong> Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world!<br \\/><br \\/> I refuse to be moved by what I see in the natural, but declare that it is temporary and subject to change! I speak to that mountain (name that mountain or giant that is standing in your way) and declare your assignment is over! You are defeated! I command you to be cast into the sea. You will not overwhelm me or overcome, for this battle is the Lord\\u2019s and He is fighting for me. <\\/em><br \\/><br \\/><em>Thank you Lord that nothing is too difficult for You! Satan I put you in remembrance that you are a defeated foe. The same God that delivered Moses and the Israelites from Pharaoh, David and the Israelites from Goliath, the Jews from Hamon, Elijah from Jezebel, will deliver me and my family!<br \\/><br \\/> Lord, You said we are blessed when we persevere under trials because, having stood the test, we will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love You. Give us strength to persevere knowing that You are going before us to prepare the way that we should go. You said You would subdue nations before us, disarm kings, and open doors and gates that have been shut. That You will go before us to level the mountains; break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. You will give us&nbsp;the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that we, and all watching, may know that You are the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls us by name.<br \\/><br \\/> And so I declare this battle is won and stand on Your Word that we will see Your deliverance. That You are making a river in the desert and a roadway in the wilderness and we will walk in the victory!<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> Gal 6:9, I Jn 4:4, 2 Cor 4:18, Mark 11:23, James 1:12, Ex 14:14, Jer 32:17, Is 45:1-3, Is 43:19-21<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;<em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>If this ministry is a blessing to you<\\/strong> and you are not already supporting us in prayer and giving, <strong>please consider planting a gift as the Lord leads.<\\/strong> All gifts are tax-deductible. 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Its roots are demonic tied to spiritual darkness, jealousy, pride and manipulation.<br \\/><br \\/> Lawfare is defined as: \\u201cthe use of legal proceedings to achieve a goal, such as the use of legal systems to wage war to damage or destroy someone\\u2019s reputation. This approach transforms the battlefield from physical combat to the&nbsp;courtroom, where legal maneuvers become the weapons of choice.\\u201d (<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/\\\">https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/<\\/a>)<br \\/><br \\/> Especially over the last ten years, lawfare has increased&nbsp;exponentially where legal avenues are weaponized to hinder or destroy political opponents or righteous actions.<br \\/><br \\/> When laws are manipulated to achieve an unrighteous end, it is demonic lawfare. It can be enabled with both&nbsp;unknowing or corrupt judges\\/leaders, who allow unjust&nbsp;actions to be legalized and promoted.<br \\/><br \\/> Ecclesiastes reminds us there is nothing new under the sun. The same spirit of wickedness in our world now has been prevalent throughout time. Let\\u2019s take a look:<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Lawfare in the days of Esther<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;When Mordecai refused to bow down to Hamon, the second in command to the king, Hamon became enraged. The&nbsp;definition of enraged is: \\u201crage that goes into and takes over.\\u201d Hamon became possessed with a spirit of jealousy and rage which had an insatiable desire to destroy. (That is a 7-stage spiritual pattern I reveal in my book, \\u201cInfected.\\u201d Once&nbsp;someone is infected, the spiritual virus will progress to&nbsp;insanity and death if not delivered from it!)<br \\/><br \\/> \\u201cWhen Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who Mordecai\\u2019s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai\\u2019s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes (Ecc 3:5-6).<br \\/><br \\/> It wasn\\u2019t enough in Hamon\\u2019s mind to destroy Mordecai.&nbsp;Possessed by a demonic force, it pushed him to want to&nbsp;destroy ALL the Jewish people! Hamon went to the king to write an edict and create a legal avenue in which he could kill the Jews. Hamon positioned his request as a way to \\u201cprotect\\u201d the king. But it was all based on a lie.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Lawfare in the days of Daniel<\\/strong><br \\/> Similar actions were repeated in the book of Daniel (chapter 6) where it says the king was so impressed with Daniel that he wanted to elevate him in position above all the other princes, and leaders. That didn\\u2019t go over well with them as you can imagine.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<p>&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/19c7e5cf-1f3e-65a4-9093-7618b89f48cb.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"563.8214721679688\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>May 7,&nbsp;2025<\\/p>\\r\\n<p>Lawfare is a modern term to an ancient tool that was&nbsp;used in biblical days. Its roots are demonic tied to spiritual darkness, jealousy, pride and manipulation.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Lawfare is defined as: \\u201cthe use of legal proceedings to achieve a goal, such as the use of legal systems to wage war to damage or destroy someone\\u2019s reputation. This approach transforms the battlefield from physical combat to the&nbsp;courtroom, where legal maneuvers become the weapons of choice.\\u201d (<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/\\\">https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/<\\/a>)<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Especially over the last ten years, lawfare has increased&nbsp;exponentially where legal avenues are weaponized to hinder or destroy political opponents or righteous actions.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> When laws are manipulated to achieve an unrighteous end, it is demonic lawfare. It can be enabled with both&nbsp;unknowing or corrupt judges\\/leaders, who allow unjust&nbsp;actions to be legalized and promoted.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Ecclesiastes reminds us there is nothing new under the sun. The same spirit of wickedness in our world now has been prevalent throughout time. Let\\u2019s take a look:<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>Lawfare in the days of Esther<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;When Mordecai refused to bow down to Hamon, the second in command to the king, Hamon became enraged. The&nbsp;definition of enraged is: \\u201crage that goes into and takes over.\\u201d Hamon became possessed with a spirit of jealousy and rage which had an insatiable desire to destroy. (That is a 7-stage spiritual pattern I reveal in my book, \\u201cInfected.\\u201d Once&nbsp;someone is infected, the spiritual virus will progress to&nbsp;insanity and death if not delivered from it!)<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> \\u201cWhen Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who Mordecai\\u2019s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai\\u2019s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes (Ecc 3:5-6).<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> It wasn\\u2019t enough in Hamon\\u2019s mind to destroy Mordecai.&nbsp;Possessed by a demonic force, it pushed him to want to&nbsp;destroy ALL the Jewish people! Hamon went to the king to write an edict and create a legal avenue in which he could kill the Jews. Hamon positioned his request as a way to \\u201cprotect\\u201d the king. But it was all based on a lie.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>Lawfare in the days of Daniel<\\/strong><br \\/> Similar actions were repeated in the book of Daniel (chapter 6) where it says the king was so impressed with Daniel that he wanted to elevate him in position above all the other princes, and leaders. That didn\\u2019t go over well with them as you can imagine.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> At this, the administrators and the satraps (ruler\\/leader\\/bureaucrat) tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, \\u201cWe will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God\\u201d (Daniel 6:4-5)<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> They appealed to the king\\u2019s pride that any in the kingdom who would elevate anyone or thing above the king for 30 days should be destroyed. They coerced the king to write an edict saying so.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and&nbsp;governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions\\u2019 den.&nbsp;Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it&nbsp;cannot be altered\\u2014in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.\\u201d So King Darius put the decree in writing (Daniel 6:7-9).<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The jealous ones worked to create an injunction that would allow them to have Daniel killed\\u2014legally with the king\\u2019s approval. The king was tricked and didn\\u2019t realize the&nbsp;end-result of what he was signing into law.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>In Jesus\\u2019 day<\\/strong><br \\/> The Pharisees were enraged at Jesus. His popularity had usurped theirs. He worked miracles which they could not.&nbsp;In pride and jealousy, they determined to destroy him and coerce Rome to do the dirty work and crucify Jesus. We all know how that worked out.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>That same spirit still operates today.<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> We see it now as unethical and devious individuals have been removed in the most recent elections and now attempt to claw their way back into a position of power. Don\\u2019t just think that is only happening in D.C.. It is happening all over our nation because this is a battle of the spirit! We are in a season of exposure and cleaning house. This isn\\u2019t about what we are doing\\u2026it is about what God is doing.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> HE is cleaning house and we need to be fully aware and make sure we are on the right side of this battle. The spirit&nbsp;of offense continues to blind many to what is really at work right now. Be aware and be wise so that we don\\u2019t find&nbsp;ourselves battling His plan and purpose.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>Judgement in the house of God\\u2026<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;1 Peter 4:17 says: \\u201cFor it is time for judgement to begin with the household of God\\u2026\\u201d<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Those with a grace gift find it hard to believe that some&nbsp;people can be intentionally evil. They want to believe the best in someone, and do not believe that they should be&nbsp;confronted. By refusing to confront injustice and unrighteous behavior, we actually enable wickedness to continue.&nbsp;Especially if a person is in a position of leadership (church, community, or government), we cannot excuse wrongdoing. Perhaps that person just made a mistake or had a one-time failure. By confronting his failure, we bring correction so that person can still be part of his community. But there are those who are wicked through and through. We may not&nbsp;realize it at first. 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13:09:13',873,21855,'e67671e79a9a3a67026ea119fa6dd358bd2e72ab','{\"id\":2148,\"asset_id\":\"2460\",\"title\":\"Demonic Roots of Lawfare - Karen Hardin - May 7, 2025\",\"alias\":\"demonic-roots-of-lawfare-karen-hardin-may-7-2025\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>Demonic Roots of Lawfare - Karen Hardin - May 7, 2025<\\/h1>\\r\\n<p><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/19c7e5cf-1f3e-65a4-9093-7618b89f48cb.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"222\\\" height=\\\"125\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" hspace=\\\"10\\/\\\" \\/><\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Lawfare is a modern term to an ancient tool that was&nbsp;used in biblical days. Its roots are demonic tied to spiritual darkness, jealousy, pride and manipulation.<br \\/><br \\/> Lawfare is defined as: \\u201cthe use of legal proceedings to achieve a goal, such as the use of legal systems to wage war to damage or destroy someone\\u2019s reputation. This approach transforms the battlefield from physical combat to the&nbsp;courtroom, where legal maneuvers become the weapons of choice.\\u201d (<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/\\\">https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/<\\/a>)<br \\/><br \\/> Especially over the last ten years, lawfare has increased&nbsp;exponentially where legal avenues are weaponized to hinder or destroy political opponents or righteous actions.<br \\/><br \\/> When laws are manipulated to achieve an unrighteous end, it is demonic lawfare. It can be enabled with both&nbsp;unknowing or corrupt judges\\/leaders, who allow unjust&nbsp;actions to be legalized and promoted.<br \\/><br \\/> Ecclesiastes reminds us there is nothing new under the sun. The same spirit of wickedness in our world now has been prevalent throughout time. Let\\u2019s take a look:<\\/p>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/19c7e5cf-1f3e-65a4-9093-7618b89f48cb.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"563.8214721679688\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>May 7,&nbsp;2025<\\/p>\\r\\n<p>Lawfare is a modern term to an ancient tool that was&nbsp;used in biblical days. Its roots are demonic tied to spiritual darkness, jealousy, pride and manipulation.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Lawfare is defined as: \\u201cthe use of legal proceedings to achieve a goal, such as the use of legal systems to wage war to damage or destroy someone\\u2019s reputation. This approach transforms the battlefield from physical combat to the&nbsp;courtroom, where legal maneuvers become the weapons of choice.\\u201d (<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/\\\">https:\\/\\/wayneaston.com\\/what-is-the-meaning-of-lawfare\\/<\\/a>)<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Especially over the last ten years, lawfare has increased&nbsp;exponentially where legal avenues are weaponized to hinder or destroy political opponents or righteous actions.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> When laws are manipulated to achieve an unrighteous end, it is demonic lawfare. It can be enabled with both&nbsp;unknowing or corrupt judges\\/leaders, who allow unjust&nbsp;actions to be legalized and promoted.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Ecclesiastes reminds us there is nothing new under the sun. The same spirit of wickedness in our world now has been prevalent throughout time. Let\\u2019s take a look:<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>Lawfare in the days of Esther<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;When Mordecai refused to bow down to Hamon, the second in command to the king, Hamon became enraged. The&nbsp;definition of enraged is: \\u201crage that goes into and takes over.\\u201d Hamon became possessed with a spirit of jealousy and rage which had an insatiable desire to destroy. (That is a 7-stage spiritual pattern I reveal in my book, \\u201cInfected.\\u201d Once&nbsp;someone is infected, the spiritual virus will progress to&nbsp;insanity and death if not delivered from it!)<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> \\u201cWhen Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who Mordecai\\u2019s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai\\u2019s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes (Ecc 3:5-6).<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> It wasn\\u2019t enough in Hamon\\u2019s mind to destroy Mordecai.&nbsp;Possessed by a demonic force, it pushed him to want to&nbsp;destroy ALL the Jewish people! Hamon went to the king to write an edict and create a legal avenue in which he could kill the Jews. Hamon positioned his request as a way to \\u201cprotect\\u201d the king. But it was all based on a lie.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>Lawfare in the days of Daniel<\\/strong><br \\/> Similar actions were repeated in the book of Daniel (chapter 6) where it says the king was so impressed with Daniel that he wanted to elevate him in position above all the other princes, and leaders. That didn\\u2019t go over well with them as you can imagine.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> At this, the administrators and the satraps (ruler\\/leader\\/bureaucrat) tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, \\u201cWe will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God\\u201d (Daniel 6:4-5)<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> They appealed to the king\\u2019s pride that any in the kingdom who would elevate anyone or thing above the king for 30 days should be destroyed. They coerced the king to write an edict saying so.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and&nbsp;governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions\\u2019 den.&nbsp;Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it&nbsp;cannot be altered\\u2014in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.\\u201d So King Darius put the decree in writing (Daniel 6:7-9).<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> The jealous ones worked to create an injunction that would allow them to have Daniel killed\\u2014legally with the king\\u2019s approval. The king was tricked and didn\\u2019t realize the&nbsp;end-result of what he was signing into law.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>In Jesus\\u2019 day<\\/strong><br \\/> The Pharisees were enraged at Jesus. His popularity had usurped theirs. He worked miracles which they could not.&nbsp;In pride and jealousy, they determined to destroy him and coerce Rome to do the dirty work and crucify Jesus. We all know how that worked out.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>That same spirit still operates today.<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> We see it now as unethical and devious individuals have been removed in the most recent elections and now attempt to claw their way back into a position of power. Don\\u2019t just think that is only happening in D.C.. It is happening all over our nation because this is a battle of the spirit! We are in a season of exposure and cleaning house. This isn\\u2019t about what we are doing\\u2026it is about what God is doing.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> HE is cleaning house and we need to be fully aware and make sure we are on the right side of this battle. The spirit&nbsp;of offense continues to blind many to what is really at work right now. Be aware and be wise so that we don\\u2019t find&nbsp;ourselves battling His plan and purpose.<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> <strong>Judgement in the house of God\\u2026<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;1 Peter 4:17 says: \\u201cFor it is time for judgement to begin with the household of God\\u2026\\u201d<br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> Those with a grace gift find it hard to believe that some&nbsp;people can be intentionally evil. They want to believe the best in someone, and do not believe that they should be&nbsp;confronted. By refusing to confront injustice and unrighteous behavior, we actually enable wickedness to continue.&nbsp;Especially if a person is in a position of leadership (church, community, or government), we cannot excuse wrongdoing. Perhaps that person just made a mistake or had a one-time failure. By confronting his failure, we bring correction so that person can still be part of his community. But there are those who are wicked through and through. We may not&nbsp;realize it at first. They may be good with their words and make many people believe they are good. But once they are exposed, we cannot excuse their actions. Strong discipline must happen and the person must be removed from any&nbsp;position of leadership and influence. Light cannot fellowship with darkness. We must not compromise when it comes to&nbsp; ungodly leadership. 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The last Pope Leo was in office from 1878 to 1903. Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891 encyclical \\u201con capital and labor\\u201d that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching. This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property are essential to human flourishing. And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to end.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Rerum novarum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let\\u2019s start, though, with Rerum novarum, since it has been so much more influential than his other works. Writing in 1891, Leo XIII said:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The socialists, working on the poor man\\u2019s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cSocialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life,\\u201d the encyclical says. \\u201cEvery man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cThe socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home,\\u201d Leo XIII wrote. He goes on:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the levelling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation. Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">No wiggle room there. Private property is God-ordained and fundamental to human life. Leo XIII\\u2019s criticism of capitalism is much more nuanced and restrained. He saw a greater role for organized labor than the U.S. has typically had, and the working classes in Europe were genuinely in worse shape in the late 1800s than they are today. Part of the solution, he believed, was not greater government control but rather more private ownership, and he wrote that government policy \\u201cshould be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod apostolici muneris<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Now, back to the start. Leo XIII devoted his entire second encyclical, 1878\\u2019s Quod apostolici muneris, to the subject of socialism. In the first paragraph, he wrote, \\u201cYou understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning \\u2013 the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Of socialists, Leo XIII wrote:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, \\u201cDefile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.\\u201d They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is \\u201cthe root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,\\u201d they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one\\u2019s mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Tell us what you really think!<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cBut the boldness of these bad men, which day by day more and more threatens civil society with destruction, and strikes the souls of all with anxiety and fear, finds its cause and origin in those poisonous doctrines which, spread abroad in former times among the people, like evil seed bore in due time such fatal fruit,\\u201d Leo XIII continued. He saw the church as a source of \\u201cdoctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He accused socialists of \\u201cstealing the very Gospel itself\\u201d and said they would \\u201cstrive almost completely to dissolve\\u201d the bonds of family. He concluded, \\u201cAnd since they know that the Church of Christ has such power to ward off the plague of socialism as cannot be found in human laws, in the mandates of magistrates, or in the force of armies, let them restore that Church to the condition and liberty in which she may exert her healing force for the benefit of all society.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Diuturnum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is about the \\u201corigin of civil power.\\u201d It also mentions socialism, in a paragraph that begins by noting that \\u201cthe doctrines on political power invented by late writers have already produced great ills amongst men, and it is to be feared that they will cause the very greatest disasters to posterity.\\u201d Leo wrote, \\u201cFor an unwillingness to attribute the right of ruling to God, as its Author, is not less than a willingness to blot out the greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>He continued:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">We have reached the limit of horrors, to wit, communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin. And yet too many attempt to enlarge the scope of these evils, and under the pretext of helping the multitude, already have fanned no small flames of misery.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He didn\\u2019t know how right he would turn out to be. Writing in 1881, he didn\\u2019t know anything about the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, or any of the other communist horrors of the century to come.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Licet multa<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This 1881 encyclical is about Catholics in Belgium, but Leo XIII felt it necessary to mention socialism in contrast with Christian society.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Most assuredly we, more than any one, ought heartily to desire that human society should be governed in a Christian manner, and that the divine influence of Christ should penetrate and completely impregnate all orders of the State. From the commencement of our Pontificate we manifested, without delay, that such was our settled opinion; and that by public documents, and especially by the Encyclical Letters we published against the errors of Socialism, and, quite recently, upon the Civil Power.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Auspicato concessum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Writing about St. Francis of Assisi in 1882, Leo XIII mentioned that focusing on his institutes would develop Christian virtue and defend against socialism. \\u201cThan this disposition of mind nothing is more efficacious to extinguish utterly every vice of this kind, whether violence, injuries, desire for revolution, hatred among the different ranks of society, in all which vices the beginnings and the weapons of socialism are found.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Humanum genus<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is against Freemasonry. In passing, it mentions the \\u201cmonstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod multum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote this encyclical in 1886, addressed to the bishops of Hungary. He wrote that the church is an \\u201ceffective means of restraining socialism.\\u201d He sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Nevertheless to restrain the danger of socialism there is only one genuinely effective means, in the absence of which the fear of punishment has little weight to discourage offenders. It is that citizens should be thoroughly educated in religion, and restrained by respect for and love of the Church. For the Church as parent and teacher is the holy guardian of religion, moral integrity, and virtue. All who follow the precepts of the Gospel religiously and entirely are, by this very fact, far from the suspicion of socialism. For religion commands us to worship and fear God and to submit to and obey legitimate authority. It forbids anyone to act seditiously and demands for everyone the security of his possessions and rights. It furthermore commands those who have wealth to come graciously to the aid of the poor. Religion aids the needy with all the works of charity and consoles those who suffer loss, enkindling in them the hope of the greatest eternal blessings which will be in proportion to the labor endured and the length of that labor. Therefore those who rule the states will do nothing wiser and more opportune than to recognize that religion influences the people despite all obstacles and recalls them to virtue and uprightness of character through her teachings. To distrust the Church or hold it suspect is, in the first place, unjust, and in the second, profits no one except the enemies of civil discipline and those bent on destruction.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Libertas<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">As the name suggests, this encyclical from 1888 is about the nature of liberty. Leo XIII mentions socialism as an example of a doctrine that perverts true human liberty, because it is based on revolution and envy:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">With ambitious designs on sovereignty, tumult and sedition will be common amongst the people; and when duty and conscience cease to appeal to them, there will be nothing to hold them back but force, which of itself alone is powerless to keep their covetousness in check. Of this we have almost daily evidence in the conflict with socialists and members of other seditious societies, who labor unceasingly to bring about revolution. It is for those, then, who are capable of forming a just estimate of things to decide whether such doctrines promote that true liberty which alone is worthy of man, or rather, pervert and destroy it.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Exeunte iam anno<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Written in 1888, this encyclical is about \\u201cthe right ordering of a Christian life.\\u201d Leo XIII mentions socialism in a list of evils that result from ignoring Christian religion:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is wilfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason?<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Solzhenitsyn said that the best explanation for the evils of the Soviet Union might best be summed up with the sentence: \\u201cMen have forgotten God.\\u201d Leo XIII was foreshadowing that here.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Dall\\u2019alto dell\\u2019Apostolico seggio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Freemasonry, this one focuses on Italy and was written in 1890. Leo XIII devoted an entire section to the dangers of socialism. It begins thus:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Moreover, one of the greatest and most formidable dangers of society at the present day, is the agitation of the Socialists, who threaten to uplift it from its foundations. From this great danger Italy is not free; and although other nations may be more infested than Italy by this spirit of subversion and disorder, it is not therefore less true that even here this spirit is widely spreading and increasing every day in strength. So criminal is its nature, so great the power of its organisation and the audacity of its designs, that there is need of uniting all conservative forces, if we are to arrest its progress and successfully to prevent its triumph.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Compare those words with these, from the mission statement for National Review:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The century\\u2019s most blatant force of satanic utopianism is communism. We consider \\u201ccoexistence\\u201d with communism neither desirable nor possible, nor honorable; we find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Buckley was a Catholic, after all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Permoti nos<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Belgium, written in 1895, exhorts Belgian Catholics to stand strong against socialism. Leo XIII specifically references Rerum novarum as one of his greatest efforts to warn against the evils of socialism:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let them rather act in the closest concert in order to oppose all their plans and strength to the wickedness of Socialism, which very clearly will cause evils and great losses. For it is constantly and in every way exerting itself violently against religion and the state; it is striving every day to throw both divine and human laws into confusion and to destroy the good works of evangelical providence. Our voice has been raised often and vehemently against this great calamity, as the commands and warnings which We gave in the Letter Rerum Novarum sufficiently testify. So to this purpose all good men should direct their minds to the exclusion of factional interests. They should uphold the sacred order of God and of their country without doubt, in their legitimate fight on behalf of Christian truth, justice, and charity. For it is from this order that public safety and happiness spring.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Spesse volte<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote to address the suppression of Catholic institutions in Italy in 1898. It bemoans the \\u201cprogress of socialism and anarchy\\u201d and \\u201cthe endless evil to which they expose the nation.\\u201d He wrote that the Catholic associations and charities that were being suppressed were a \\u201cbulwark against the subversive theories of socialism and anarchy\\u201d and that they would help the people of Italy by \\u201cshielding them from the perils of socialism and anarchy.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Graves de communi re<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII opens this encyclical as follows:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The grave discussions on economical questions which for same time past have disturbed the peace of several countries of the world are growing in frequency and intensity to such a degree that the minds of thoughtful men are filled, and rightly so, with worry and alarm. These discussions take their rise in the bad philosophical and ethical teaching which is now widespread among the people. The changes, also, which the mechanical inventions of the age have introduced, the rapidity of communication between places, and the devices of every kind for diminishing labor and increasing gain, all add bitterness to the strife; and, lastly, matters have been brought to such a pass by the struggle between capital and labor, fomented as it is by professional agitators, that the countries where these disturbances most frequently occur find themselves confronted with ruin and disaster.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">That was written 1901, but in many respects it could just as easily have been written in 2025.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote that he viewed it as his duty to \\u201cwarn Catholics, in unmistakable language, how great the error was which was lurking in the utterances of socialism, and how great the danger was that threatened not only their temporal possessions, but also their morality and religion.\\u201d He said that was why he wrote Quod apolostici muneris almost immediately upon assuming the papacy, and again referenced Rerum novarum as a warning against socialism.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He then contrasted social democracy with Christian democracy. He saw social democracy as a stepping stone to socialism, because it is based on the same rejection of God and embrace of materialism. He wrote that social democracy,&nbsp;with due consideration to the greater or less intemperance of its utterance, is carried to such an excess by many as to maintain that there is really nothing existing above the natural order of things, and that the acquirement and enjoyment of corporal and external goods constitute man\\u2019s happiness. It aims at putting all government in the hands of the masses, reducing all ranks to the same level, abolishing all distinction of class, and finally introducing community of goods. Hence, the right to own private property is to be abrogated, and whatever property a man possesses, or whatever means of livelihood he has, is to be common to all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cIt is clear, therefore, that there in nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy,\\u201d Leo XIII concluded. \\u201cThey differ from each other as much as the sect of socialism differs from the profession of Christianity.\\u201d He later contrasted \\u201cChristian sentiments\\u201d with \\u201cthe contamination of socialism which threatens them.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII again sounds prophetic about the evils of socialism that would be coming. Again, this was written in 1901, 16 years before the Bolshevik Revolution:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The condition of things at present proclaims, and proclaims vehemently, that there is need for a union of brave minds with all the resources they can command. The harvest of misery is before our eyes, and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement. They have insidiously worked their way into the very heart of the community, and in the darkness of their secret gatherings, and in the open light of day, in their writings and their harangues, they are urging the masses onward to sedition; they fling aside religious discipline; they scorn duties; they clamor only for rights; they are working incessantly on the multitudes of the needy which daily grow greater, and which, because of their poverty are easily deluded and led into error. It is equally the concern of the State and of religion, and all good men should deem it a sacred duty to preserve and guard both in the honor which is their due.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Fin dal principio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In the penultimate encyclical of his pontificate, Leo XIII wrote about the education of Catholic clergy. He stressed the same message about the dangers of socialism and its opposition to the Christian faith, with emphasis on how priests should be educated to support Christian democracy and stay far away from any socialist causes:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">We repeat again, and still more warmly, that the clergy go to a Christian people tempted on every side, and with every kind of fallacious promise offered by Socialism to apostatize from the true faith. They must therefore submit all their actions to the authority of those whom the Holy Spirit has constituted Bishops, to rule the Church of God, without which would follow confusion and the most grave disorders to the detriment even of the cause they have at heart to defend and promote. It is for this end that we desire that the candidates for the priesthood, on the conclusion of their education in the seminary, should be suitably instructed in the pontifical documents relating to the social question, and the Christian democracy, abstaining, however, as we have already said, from taking any part whatever in the external movement.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Conclusion<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to God\\u2019s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God\\u2019s design for mankind. He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God\\u2019s authority. He used words like \\u201cevil,\\u201d \\u201cwicked,\\u201d \\u201cplague,\\u201d \\u201cmonstrous,\\u201d and \\u201chideous\\u201d to describe socialism, words he never used to reference markets or private property. On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God\\u2019s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined, by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism. If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII\\u2019s legacy in choosing his regnal name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the evils of socialism.<\\/div>\",\"state\":1,\"catid\":\"8\",\"created\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"created_by\":\"873\",\"created_by_alias\":\"\",\"modified\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"modified_by\":null,\"checked_out\":null,\"checked_out_time\":null,\"publish_up\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"publish_down\":\"0000-00-00 00:00:00\",\"images\":\"{\\\"image_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_caption\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"urls\":\"{\\\"urla\\\":false,\\\"urlatext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targeta\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlb\\\":false,\\\"urlbtext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetb\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlc\\\":false,\\\"urlctext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetc\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"attribs\":\"{\\\"article_layout\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_titles\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_tags\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_associations\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_create_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_modify_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publish_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_item_navigation\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_icons\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_print_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_email_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_vote\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_hits\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_noauth\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urls_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"alternative_readmore\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"article_page_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publishing_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_article_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_backend\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_frontend\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"version\":1,\"ordering\":null,\"metakey\":\"\",\"metadesc\":\"\",\"access\":\"1\",\"hits\":null,\"metadata\":\"{\\\"robots\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"rights\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"xreference\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"featured\":\"1\",\"language\":\"*\",\"xreference\":\"\",\"note\":\"\"}',0),(6336,2152,1,'','2025-05-13 00:07:39',873,32464,'73aa51c03f75abdfe279bc530215e48094b162d2','{\"id\":2152,\"asset_id\":\"2464\",\"title\":\"The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -\\u00a0By Dominic Pino -\\u00a0May 9, 2025 6:42 AM\",\"alias\":\"the-last-pope-leo-had-some-great-takes-on-socialism-by-dominic-pino-may-9-2025-6-42-am\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -&nbsp;By Dominic Pino -&nbsp;May 9, 2025 <span style=\\\"font-size: 14pt;\\\">6:42 AM<\\/span><br \\/><img src=\\\"images\\/pope_leo_xiii.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"pope leo xiii\\\" width=\\\"222\\\" height=\\\"297\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" hspace=\\\"10\\/\\\" \\/><\\/h1>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The new pope is taking the regnal name Leo XIV. The last Pope Leo was in office from 1878 to 1903. Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891 encyclical \\u201con capital and labor\\u201d that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching. This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property are essential to human flourishing. And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to end.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Rerum novarum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let\\u2019s start, though, with Rerum novarum, since it has been so much more influential than his other works. Writing in 1891, Leo XIII said:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The socialists, working on the poor man\\u2019s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cSocialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life,\\u201d the encyclical says. \\u201cEvery man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cThe socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home,\\u201d Leo XIII wrote. He goes on:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the levelling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation. Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">No wiggle room there. Private property is God-ordained and fundamental to human life. Leo XIII\\u2019s criticism of capitalism is much more nuanced and restrained. He saw a greater role for organized labor than the U.S. has typically had, and the working classes in Europe were genuinely in worse shape in the late 1800s than they are today. Part of the solution, he believed, was not greater government control but rather more private ownership, and he wrote that government policy \\u201cshould be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod apostolici muneris<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Now, back to the start. Leo XIII devoted his entire second encyclical, 1878\\u2019s Quod apostolici muneris, to the subject of socialism. In the first paragraph, he wrote, \\u201cYou understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning \\u2013 the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Of socialists, Leo XIII wrote:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, \\u201cDefile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.\\u201d They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is \\u201cthe root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,\\u201d they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one\\u2019s mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Tell us what you really think!<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cBut the boldness of these bad men, which day by day more and more threatens civil society with destruction, and strikes the souls of all with anxiety and fear, finds its cause and origin in those poisonous doctrines which, spread abroad in former times among the people, like evil seed bore in due time such fatal fruit,\\u201d Leo XIII continued. He saw the church as a source of \\u201cdoctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He accused socialists of \\u201cstealing the very Gospel itself\\u201d and said they would \\u201cstrive almost completely to dissolve\\u201d the bonds of family. He concluded, \\u201cAnd since they know that the Church of Christ has such power to ward off the plague of socialism as cannot be found in human laws, in the mandates of magistrates, or in the force of armies, let them restore that Church to the condition and liberty in which she may exert her healing force for the benefit of all society.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Diuturnum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is about the \\u201corigin of civil power.\\u201d It also mentions socialism, in a paragraph that begins by noting that \\u201cthe doctrines on political power invented by late writers have already produced great ills amongst men, and it is to be feared that they will cause the very greatest disasters to posterity.\\u201d Leo wrote, \\u201cFor an unwillingness to attribute the right of ruling to God, as its Author, is not less than a willingness to blot out the greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>He continued:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">We have reached the limit of horrors, to wit, communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin. And yet too many attempt to enlarge the scope of these evils, and under the pretext of helping the multitude, already have fanned no small flames of misery.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He didn\\u2019t know how right he would turn out to be. Writing in 1881, he didn\\u2019t know anything about the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, or any of the other communist horrors of the century to come.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Licet multa<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This 1881 encyclical is about Catholics in Belgium, but Leo XIII felt it necessary to mention socialism in contrast with Christian society.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Most assuredly we, more than any one, ought heartily to desire that human society should be governed in a Christian manner, and that the divine influence of Christ should penetrate and completely impregnate all orders of the State. From the commencement of our Pontificate we manifested, without delay, that such was our settled opinion; and that by public documents, and especially by the Encyclical Letters we published against the errors of Socialism, and, quite recently, upon the Civil Power.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Auspicato concessum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Writing about St. Francis of Assisi in 1882, Leo XIII mentioned that focusing on his institutes would develop Christian virtue and defend against socialism. \\u201cThan this disposition of mind nothing is more efficacious to extinguish utterly every vice of this kind, whether violence, injuries, desire for revolution, hatred among the different ranks of society, in all which vices the beginnings and the weapons of socialism are found.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Humanum genus<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is against Freemasonry. In passing, it mentions the \\u201cmonstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod multum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote this encyclical in 1886, addressed to the bishops of Hungary. He wrote that the church is an \\u201ceffective means of restraining socialism.\\u201d He sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Nevertheless to restrain the danger of socialism there is only one genuinely effective means, in the absence of which the fear of punishment has little weight to discourage offenders. It is that citizens should be thoroughly educated in religion, and restrained by respect for and love of the Church. For the Church as parent and teacher is the holy guardian of religion, moral integrity, and virtue. All who follow the precepts of the Gospel religiously and entirely are, by this very fact, far from the suspicion of socialism. For religion commands us to worship and fear God and to submit to and obey legitimate authority. It forbids anyone to act seditiously and demands for everyone the security of his possessions and rights. It furthermore commands those who have wealth to come graciously to the aid of the poor. Religion aids the needy with all the works of charity and consoles those who suffer loss, enkindling in them the hope of the greatest eternal blessings which will be in proportion to the labor endured and the length of that labor. Therefore those who rule the states will do nothing wiser and more opportune than to recognize that religion influences the people despite all obstacles and recalls them to virtue and uprightness of character through her teachings. To distrust the Church or hold it suspect is, in the first place, unjust, and in the second, profits no one except the enemies of civil discipline and those bent on destruction.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Libertas<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">As the name suggests, this encyclical from 1888 is about the nature of liberty. Leo XIII mentions socialism as an example of a doctrine that perverts true human liberty, because it is based on revolution and envy:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">With ambitious designs on sovereignty, tumult and sedition will be common amongst the people; and when duty and conscience cease to appeal to them, there will be nothing to hold them back but force, which of itself alone is powerless to keep their covetousness in check. Of this we have almost daily evidence in the conflict with socialists and members of other seditious societies, who labor unceasingly to bring about revolution. It is for those, then, who are capable of forming a just estimate of things to decide whether such doctrines promote that true liberty which alone is worthy of man, or rather, pervert and destroy it.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Exeunte iam anno<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Written in 1888, this encyclical is about \\u201cthe right ordering of a Christian life.\\u201d Leo XIII mentions socialism in a list of evils that result from ignoring Christian religion:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is wilfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason?<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Solzhenitsyn said that the best explanation for the evils of the Soviet Union might best be summed up with the sentence: \\u201cMen have forgotten God.\\u201d Leo XIII was foreshadowing that here.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Dall\\u2019alto dell\\u2019Apostolico seggio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Freemasonry, this one focuses on Italy and was written in 1890. Leo XIII devoted an entire section to the dangers of socialism. It begins thus:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Moreover, one of the greatest and most formidable dangers of society at the present day, is the agitation of the Socialists, who threaten to uplift it from its foundations. From this great danger Italy is not free; and although other nations may be more infested than Italy by this spirit of subversion and disorder, it is not therefore less true that even here this spirit is widely spreading and increasing every day in strength. So criminal is its nature, so great the power of its organisation and the audacity of its designs, that there is need of uniting all conservative forces, if we are to arrest its progress and successfully to prevent its triumph.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Compare those words with these, from the mission statement for National Review:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The century\\u2019s most blatant force of satanic utopianism is communism. We consider \\u201ccoexistence\\u201d with communism neither desirable nor possible, nor honorable; we find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Buckley was a Catholic, after all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Permoti nos<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Belgium, written in 1895, exhorts Belgian Catholics to stand strong against socialism. Leo XIII specifically references Rerum novarum as one of his greatest efforts to warn against the evils of socialism:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let them rather act in the closest concert in order to oppose all their plans and strength to the wickedness of Socialism, which very clearly will cause evils and great losses. For it is constantly and in every way exerting itself violently against religion and the state; it is striving every day to throw both divine and human laws into confusion and to destroy the good works of evangelical providence. Our voice has been raised often and vehemently against this great calamity, as the commands and warnings which We gave in the Letter Rerum Novarum sufficiently testify. So to this purpose all good men should direct their minds to the exclusion of factional interests. They should uphold the sacred order of God and of their country without doubt, in their legitimate fight on behalf of Christian truth, justice, and charity. For it is from this order that public safety and happiness spring.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Spesse volte<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote to address the suppression of Catholic institutions in Italy in 1898. It bemoans the \\u201cprogress of socialism and anarchy\\u201d and \\u201cthe endless evil to which they expose the nation.\\u201d He wrote that the Catholic associations and charities that were being suppressed were a \\u201cbulwark against the subversive theories of socialism and anarchy\\u201d and that they would help the people of Italy by \\u201cshielding them from the perils of socialism and anarchy.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Graves de communi re<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII opens this encyclical as follows:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The grave discussions on economical questions which for same time past have disturbed the peace of several countries of the world are growing in frequency and intensity to such a degree that the minds of thoughtful men are filled, and rightly so, with worry and alarm. These discussions take their rise in the bad philosophical and ethical teaching which is now widespread among the people. The changes, also, which the mechanical inventions of the age have introduced, the rapidity of communication between places, and the devices of every kind for diminishing labor and increasing gain, all add bitterness to the strife; and, lastly, matters have been brought to such a pass by the struggle between capital and labor, fomented as it is by professional agitators, that the countries where these disturbances most frequently occur find themselves confronted with ruin and disaster.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">That was written 1901, but in many respects it could just as easily have been written in 2025.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote that he viewed it as his duty to \\u201cwarn Catholics, in unmistakable language, how great the error was which was lurking in the utterances of socialism, and how great the danger was that threatened not only their temporal possessions, but also their morality and religion.\\u201d He said that was why he wrote Quod apolostici muneris almost immediately upon assuming the papacy, and again referenced Rerum novarum as a warning against socialism.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He then contrasted social democracy with Christian democracy. He saw social democracy as a stepping stone to socialism, because it is based on the same rejection of God and embrace of materialism. He wrote that social democracy,&nbsp;with due consideration to the greater or less intemperance of its utterance, is carried to such an excess by many as to maintain that there is really nothing existing above the natural order of things, and that the acquirement and enjoyment of corporal and external goods constitute man\\u2019s happiness. It aims at putting all government in the hands of the masses, reducing all ranks to the same level, abolishing all distinction of class, and finally introducing community of goods. Hence, the right to own private property is to be abrogated, and whatever property a man possesses, or whatever means of livelihood he has, is to be common to all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cIt is clear, therefore, that there in nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy,\\u201d Leo XIII concluded. \\u201cThey differ from each other as much as the sect of socialism differs from the profession of Christianity.\\u201d He later contrasted \\u201cChristian sentiments\\u201d with \\u201cthe contamination of socialism which threatens them.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII again sounds prophetic about the evils of socialism that would be coming. Again, this was written in 1901, 16 years before the Bolshevik Revolution:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The condition of things at present proclaims, and proclaims vehemently, that there is need for a union of brave minds with all the resources they can command. The harvest of misery is before our eyes, and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement. They have insidiously worked their way into the very heart of the community, and in the darkness of their secret gatherings, and in the open light of day, in their writings and their harangues, they are urging the masses onward to sedition; they fling aside religious discipline; they scorn duties; they clamor only for rights; they are working incessantly on the multitudes of the needy which daily grow greater, and which, because of their poverty are easily deluded and led into error. It is equally the concern of the State and of religion, and all good men should deem it a sacred duty to preserve and guard both in the honor which is their due.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Fin dal principio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In the penultimate encyclical of his pontificate, Leo XIII wrote about the education of Catholic clergy. He stressed the same message about the dangers of socialism and its opposition to the Christian faith, with emphasis on how priests should be educated to support Christian democracy and stay far away from any socialist causes:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">We repeat again, and still more warmly, that the clergy go to a Christian people tempted on every side, and with every kind of fallacious promise offered by Socialism to apostatize from the true faith. They must therefore submit all their actions to the authority of those whom the Holy Spirit has constituted Bishops, to rule the Church of God, without which would follow confusion and the most grave disorders to the detriment even of the cause they have at heart to defend and promote. It is for this end that we desire that the candidates for the priesthood, on the conclusion of their education in the seminary, should be suitably instructed in the pontifical documents relating to the social question, and the Christian democracy, abstaining, however, as we have already said, from taking any part whatever in the external movement.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Conclusion<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to God\\u2019s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God\\u2019s design for mankind. He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God\\u2019s authority. He used words like \\u201cevil,\\u201d \\u201cwicked,\\u201d \\u201cplague,\\u201d \\u201cmonstrous,\\u201d and \\u201chideous\\u201d to describe socialism, words he never used to reference markets or private property. On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God\\u2019s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined, by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism. If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII\\u2019s legacy in choosing his regnal name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the evils of socialism.<\\/div>\",\"state\":1,\"catid\":\"8\",\"created\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"created_by\":\"873\",\"created_by_alias\":\"\",\"modified\":\"2025-05-13 00:07:39\",\"modified_by\":\"873\",\"checked_out\":\"873\",\"checked_out_time\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"publish_up\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"publish_down\":\"0000-00-00 00:00:00\",\"images\":\"{\\\"image_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_caption\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"urls\":\"{\\\"urla\\\":false,\\\"urlatext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targeta\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlb\\\":false,\\\"urlbtext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetb\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlc\\\":false,\\\"urlctext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetc\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"attribs\":\"{\\\"article_layout\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_titles\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_tags\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_associations\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_create_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_modify_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publish_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_item_navigation\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_icons\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_print_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_email_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_vote\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_hits\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_noauth\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urls_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"alternative_readmore\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"article_page_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publishing_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_article_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_backend\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_frontend\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"version\":2,\"ordering\":\"0\",\"metakey\":\"\",\"metadesc\":\"\",\"access\":\"1\",\"hits\":\"0\",\"metadata\":\"{\\\"robots\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"rights\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"xreference\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"featured\":\"1\",\"language\":\"*\",\"xreference\":\"\",\"note\":\"\"}',0),(6337,2152,1,'','2025-05-13 13:15:46',873,32534,'8d80f4454dd41dadf108b10b814f702af0d48381','{\"id\":2152,\"asset_id\":\"2464\",\"title\":\"The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -\\u00a0By Dominic Pino -\\u00a0May 9, 2025 6:42 AM\",\"alias\":\"the-last-pope-leo-had-some-great-takes-on-socialism-by-dominic-pino-may-9-2025-6-42-am\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -&nbsp;By Dominic Pino -&nbsp;May 9, 2025 <span style=\\\"font-size: 14pt;\\\">6:42 AM<\\/span><br \\/><img src=\\\"images\\/pope_leo_xiii.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"pope leo xiii\\\" width=\\\"222\\\" height=\\\"297\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" hspace=\\\"10\\/\\\" \\/><\\/h1>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The new pope is taking the regnal name Leo XIV. The last Pope Leo was in office from 1878 to 1903. Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891 encyclical \\u201con capital and labor\\u201d that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching. This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property are essential to human flourishing. And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to end.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Rerum novarum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let\\u2019s start, though, with Rerum novarum, since it has been so much more influential than his other works. Writing in 1891, Leo XIII said:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The socialists, working on the poor man\\u2019s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cSocialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life,\\u201d the encyclical says. \\u201cEvery man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cThe socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home,\\u201d Leo XIII wrote. He goes on:<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the levelling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation. Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">No wiggle room there. Private property is God-ordained and fundamental to human life. Leo XIII\\u2019s criticism of capitalism is much more nuanced and restrained. He saw a greater role for organized labor than the U.S. has typically had, and the working classes in Europe were genuinely in worse shape in the late 1800s than they are today. Part of the solution, he believed, was not greater government control but rather more private ownership, and he wrote that government policy \\u201cshould be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod apostolici muneris<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Now, back to the start. Leo XIII devoted his entire second encyclical, 1878\\u2019s Quod apostolici muneris, to the subject of socialism. In the first paragraph, he wrote, \\u201cYou understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning \\u2013 the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Of socialists, Leo XIII wrote:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, \\u201cDefile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.\\u201d They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is \\u201cthe root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,\\u201d they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one\\u2019s mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Tell us what you really think!<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cBut the boldness of these bad men, which day by day more and more threatens civil society with destruction, and strikes the souls of all with anxiety and fear, finds its cause and origin in those poisonous doctrines which, spread abroad in former times among the people, like evil seed bore in due time such fatal fruit,\\u201d Leo XIII continued. He saw the church as a source of \\u201cdoctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He accused socialists of \\u201cstealing the very Gospel itself\\u201d and said they would \\u201cstrive almost completely to dissolve\\u201d the bonds of family. He concluded, \\u201cAnd since they know that the Church of Christ has such power to ward off the plague of socialism as cannot be found in human laws, in the mandates of magistrates, or in the force of armies, let them restore that Church to the condition and liberty in which she may exert her healing force for the benefit of all society.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Diuturnum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is about the \\u201corigin of civil power.\\u201d It also mentions socialism, in a paragraph that begins by noting that \\u201cthe doctrines on political power invented by late writers have already produced great ills amongst men, and it is to be feared that they will cause the very greatest disasters to posterity.\\u201d Leo wrote, \\u201cFor an unwillingness to attribute the right of ruling to God, as its Author, is not less than a willingness to blot out the greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>He continued:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">We have reached the limit of horrors, to wit, communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin. And yet too many attempt to enlarge the scope of these evils, and under the pretext of helping the multitude, already have fanned no small flames of misery.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He didn\\u2019t know how right he would turn out to be. Writing in 1881, he didn\\u2019t know anything about the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, or any of the other communist horrors of the century to come.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Licet multa<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This 1881 encyclical is about Catholics in Belgium, but Leo XIII felt it necessary to mention socialism in contrast with Christian society.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Most assuredly we, more than any one, ought heartily to desire that human society should be governed in a Christian manner, and that the divine influence of Christ should penetrate and completely impregnate all orders of the State. From the commencement of our Pontificate we manifested, without delay, that such was our settled opinion; and that by public documents, and especially by the Encyclical Letters we published against the errors of Socialism, and, quite recently, upon the Civil Power.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Auspicato concessum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Writing about St. Francis of Assisi in 1882, Leo XIII mentioned that focusing on his institutes would develop Christian virtue and defend against socialism. \\u201cThan this disposition of mind nothing is more efficacious to extinguish utterly every vice of this kind, whether violence, injuries, desire for revolution, hatred among the different ranks of society, in all which vices the beginnings and the weapons of socialism are found.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Humanum genus<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is against Freemasonry. In passing, it mentions the \\u201cmonstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod multum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote this encyclical in 1886, addressed to the bishops of Hungary. He wrote that the church is an \\u201ceffective means of restraining socialism.\\u201d He sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Nevertheless to restrain the danger of socialism there is only one genuinely effective means, in the absence of which the fear of punishment has little weight to discourage offenders. It is that citizens should be thoroughly educated in religion, and restrained by respect for and love of the Church. For the Church as parent and teacher is the holy guardian of religion, moral integrity, and virtue. All who follow the precepts of the Gospel religiously and entirely are, by this very fact, far from the suspicion of socialism. For religion commands us to worship and fear God and to submit to and obey legitimate authority. It forbids anyone to act seditiously and demands for everyone the security of his possessions and rights. It furthermore commands those who have wealth to come graciously to the aid of the poor. Religion aids the needy with all the works of charity and consoles those who suffer loss, enkindling in them the hope of the greatest eternal blessings which will be in proportion to the labor endured and the length of that labor. Therefore those who rule the states will do nothing wiser and more opportune than to recognize that religion influences the people despite all obstacles and recalls them to virtue and uprightness of character through her teachings. To distrust the Church or hold it suspect is, in the first place, unjust, and in the second, profits no one except the enemies of civil discipline and those bent on destruction.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Libertas<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">As the name suggests, this encyclical from 1888 is about the nature of liberty. Leo XIII mentions socialism as an example of a doctrine that perverts true human liberty, because it is based on revolution and envy:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">With ambitious designs on sovereignty, tumult and sedition will be common amongst the people; and when duty and conscience cease to appeal to them, there will be nothing to hold them back but force, which of itself alone is powerless to keep their covetousness in check. Of this we have almost daily evidence in the conflict with socialists and members of other seditious societies, who labor unceasingly to bring about revolution. It is for those, then, who are capable of forming a just estimate of things to decide whether such doctrines promote that true liberty which alone is worthy of man, or rather, pervert and destroy it.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Exeunte iam anno<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Written in 1888, this encyclical is about \\u201cthe right ordering of a Christian life.\\u201d Leo XIII mentions socialism in a list of evils that result from ignoring Christian religion:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is wilfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason?<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Solzhenitsyn said that the best explanation for the evils of the Soviet Union might best be summed up with the sentence: \\u201cMen have forgotten God.\\u201d Leo XIII was foreshadowing that here.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Dall\\u2019alto dell\\u2019Apostolico seggio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Freemasonry, this one focuses on Italy and was written in 1890. Leo XIII devoted an entire section to the dangers of socialism. It begins thus:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Moreover, one of the greatest and most formidable dangers of society at the present day, is the agitation of the Socialists, who threaten to uplift it from its foundations. From this great danger Italy is not free; and although other nations may be more infested than Italy by this spirit of subversion and disorder, it is not therefore less true that even here this spirit is widely spreading and increasing every day in strength. So criminal is its nature, so great the power of its organisation and the audacity of its designs, that there is need of uniting all conservative forces, if we are to arrest its progress and successfully to prevent its triumph.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Compare those words with these, from the mission statement for National Review:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The century\\u2019s most blatant force of satanic utopianism is communism. We consider \\u201ccoexistence\\u201d with communism neither desirable nor possible, nor honorable; we find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Buckley was a Catholic, after all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Permoti nos<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Belgium, written in 1895, exhorts Belgian Catholics to stand strong against socialism. Leo XIII specifically references Rerum novarum as one of his greatest efforts to warn against the evils of socialism:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let them rather act in the closest concert in order to oppose all their plans and strength to the wickedness of Socialism, which very clearly will cause evils and great losses. For it is constantly and in every way exerting itself violently against religion and the state; it is striving every day to throw both divine and human laws into confusion and to destroy the good works of evangelical providence. Our voice has been raised often and vehemently against this great calamity, as the commands and warnings which We gave in the Letter Rerum Novarum sufficiently testify. So to this purpose all good men should direct their minds to the exclusion of factional interests. They should uphold the sacred order of God and of their country without doubt, in their legitimate fight on behalf of Christian truth, justice, and charity. For it is from this order that public safety and happiness spring.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Spesse volte<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote to address the suppression of Catholic institutions in Italy in 1898. It bemoans the \\u201cprogress of socialism and anarchy\\u201d and \\u201cthe endless evil to which they expose the nation.\\u201d He wrote that the Catholic associations and charities that were being suppressed were a \\u201cbulwark against the subversive theories of socialism and anarchy\\u201d and that they would help the people of Italy by \\u201cshielding them from the perils of socialism and anarchy.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Graves de communi re<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII opens this encyclical as follows:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The grave discussions on economical questions which for same time past have disturbed the peace of several countries of the world are growing in frequency and intensity to such a degree that the minds of thoughtful men are filled, and rightly so, with worry and alarm. These discussions take their rise in the bad philosophical and ethical teaching which is now widespread among the people. The changes, also, which the mechanical inventions of the age have introduced, the rapidity of communication between places, and the devices of every kind for diminishing labor and increasing gain, all add bitterness to the strife; and, lastly, matters have been brought to such a pass by the struggle between capital and labor, fomented as it is by professional agitators, that the countries where these disturbances most frequently occur find themselves confronted with ruin and disaster.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">That was written 1901, but in many respects it could just as easily have been written in 2025.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote that he viewed it as his duty to \\u201cwarn Catholics, in unmistakable language, how great the error was which was lurking in the utterances of socialism, and how great the danger was that threatened not only their temporal possessions, but also their morality and religion.\\u201d He said that was why he wrote Quod apolostici muneris almost immediately upon assuming the papacy, and again referenced Rerum novarum as a warning against socialism.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He then contrasted social democracy with Christian democracy. He saw social democracy as a stepping stone to socialism, because it is based on the same rejection of God and embrace of materialism. He wrote that social democracy,&nbsp;with due consideration to the greater or less intemperance of its utterance, is carried to such an excess by many as to maintain that there is really nothing existing above the natural order of things, and that the acquirement and enjoyment of corporal and external goods constitute man\\u2019s happiness. It aims at putting all government in the hands of the masses, reducing all ranks to the same level, abolishing all distinction of class, and finally introducing community of goods. Hence, the right to own private property is to be abrogated, and whatever property a man possesses, or whatever means of livelihood he has, is to be common to all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">\\u201cIt is clear, therefore, that there in nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy,\\u201d Leo XIII concluded. \\u201cThey differ from each other as much as the sect of socialism differs from the profession of Christianity.\\u201d He later contrasted \\u201cChristian sentiments\\u201d with \\u201cthe contamination of socialism which threatens them.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII again sounds prophetic about the evils of socialism that would be coming. Again, this was written in 1901, 16 years before the Bolshevik Revolution:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The condition of things at present proclaims, and proclaims vehemently, that there is need for a union of brave minds with all the resources they can command. The harvest of misery is before our eyes, and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement. They have insidiously worked their way into the very heart of the community, and in the darkness of their secret gatherings, and in the open light of day, in their writings and their harangues, they are urging the masses onward to sedition; they fling aside religious discipline; they scorn duties; they clamor only for rights; they are working incessantly on the multitudes of the needy which daily grow greater, and which, because of their poverty are easily deluded and led into error. It is equally the concern of the State and of religion, and all good men should deem it a sacred duty to preserve and guard both in the honor which is their due.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Fin dal principio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In the penultimate encyclical of his pontificate, Leo XIII wrote about the education of Catholic clergy. He stressed the same message about the dangers of socialism and its opposition to the Christian faith, with emphasis on how priests should be educated to support Christian democracy and stay far away from any socialist causes:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">We repeat again, and still more warmly, that the clergy go to a Christian people tempted on every side, and with every kind of fallacious promise offered by Socialism to apostatize from the true faith. They must therefore submit all their actions to the authority of those whom the Holy Spirit has constituted Bishops, to rule the Church of God, without which would follow confusion and the most grave disorders to the detriment even of the cause they have at heart to defend and promote. It is for this end that we desire that the candidates for the priesthood, on the conclusion of their education in the seminary, should be suitably instructed in the pontifical documents relating to the social question, and the Christian democracy, abstaining, however, as we have already said, from taking any part whatever in the external movement.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Conclusion<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to God\\u2019s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God\\u2019s design for mankind. He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God\\u2019s authority. He used words like \\u201cevil,\\u201d \\u201cwicked,\\u201d \\u201cplague,\\u201d \\u201cmonstrous,\\u201d and \\u201chideous\\u201d to describe socialism, words he never used to reference markets or private property. On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God\\u2019s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined, by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism. If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII\\u2019s legacy in choosing his regnal name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the evils of socialism.<\\/div>\",\"state\":1,\"catid\":\"8\",\"created\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"created_by\":\"873\",\"created_by_alias\":\"\",\"modified\":\"2025-05-13 13:15:46\",\"modified_by\":\"873\",\"checked_out\":\"873\",\"checked_out_time\":\"2025-05-13 13:15:11\",\"publish_up\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"publish_down\":\"0000-00-00 00:00:00\",\"images\":\"{\\\"image_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_caption\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"urls\":\"{\\\"urla\\\":false,\\\"urlatext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targeta\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlb\\\":false,\\\"urlbtext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetb\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlc\\\":false,\\\"urlctext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetc\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"attribs\":\"{\\\"article_layout\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_titles\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_tags\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_associations\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_create_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_modify_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publish_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_item_navigation\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_icons\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_print_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_email_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_vote\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_hits\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_noauth\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urls_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"alternative_readmore\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"article_page_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publishing_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_article_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_backend\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_frontend\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"version\":3,\"ordering\":\"0\",\"metakey\":\"\",\"metadesc\":\"\",\"access\":\"1\",\"hits\":\"6\",\"metadata\":\"{\\\"robots\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"rights\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"xreference\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"featured\":\"1\",\"language\":\"*\",\"xreference\":\"\",\"note\":\"\"}',0),(6338,2152,1,'','2025-05-13 13:27:03',873,32854,'558339d7de067f4b1fb950c804edd1cd171443a0','{\"id\":2152,\"asset_id\":\"2464\",\"title\":\"The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -\\u00a0By Dominic Pino -\\u00a0May 9, 2025 6:42 AM\",\"alias\":\"the-last-pope-leo-had-some-great-takes-on-socialism-by-dominic-pino-may-9-2025-6-42-am\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -&nbsp;By Dominic Pino -&nbsp;May 9, 2025 <span style=\\\"font-size: 14pt;\\\">6:42 AM<\\/span><br \\/><img src=\\\"images\\/pope_leo_xiii.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"pope leo xiii\\\" width=\\\"222\\\" height=\\\"297\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" hspace=\\\"10\\/\\\" \\/><\\/h1>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The new pope is taking the regnal name Leo XIV. The last Pope Leo was in office from 1878 to 1903. Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891 encyclical \\u201con capital and labor\\u201d that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching. This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property are essential to human flourishing. And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to end.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Rerum novarum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let\\u2019s start, though, with Rerum novarum, since it has been so much more influential than his other works. Writing in 1891, Leo XIII said:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The socialists, working on the poor man\\u2019s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cSocialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life,\\u201d the encyclical says. \\u201cEvery man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cThe socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home,\\u201d Leo XIII wrote. He goes on:<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the levelling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation. Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">No wiggle room there. Private property is God-ordained and fundamental to human life. Leo XIII\\u2019s criticism of capitalism is much more nuanced and restrained. He saw a greater role for organized labor than the U.S. has typically had, and the working classes in Europe were genuinely in worse shape in the late 1800s than they are today. Part of the solution, he believed, was not greater government control but rather more private ownership, and he wrote that government policy \\u201cshould be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod apostolici muneris<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Now, back to the start. Leo XIII devoted his entire second encyclical, 1878\\u2019s Quod apostolici muneris, to the subject of socialism. In the first paragraph, he wrote, <em>\\u201cYou understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning \\u2013 the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Of socialists, Leo XIII wrote:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, \\u201cDefile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.\\u201d They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is \\u201cthe root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,\\u201d they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one\\u2019s mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Tell us what you really think!<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cBut the boldness of these bad men, which day by day more and more threatens civil society with destruction, and strikes the souls of all with anxiety and fear, finds its cause and origin in those poisonous doctrines which, spread abroad in former times among the people, like evil seed bore in due time such fatal fruit,\\u201d Leo XIII continued. He saw the church as a source of \\u201cdoctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He accused socialists of \\u201cstealing the very Gospel itself\\u201d and said they would \\u201cstrive almost completely to dissolve\\u201d the bonds of family. He concluded, <em>\\u201cAnd since they know that the Church of Christ has such power to ward off the plague of socialism as cannot be found in human laws, in the mandates of magistrates, or in the force of armies, let them restore that Church to the condition and liberty in which she may exert her healing force for the benefit of all society.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Diuturnum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is about the \\u201corigin of civil power.\\u201d It also mentions socialism, in a paragraph that begins by noting that <em>\\u201cthe doctrines on political power invented by late writers have already produced great ills amongst men, and it is to be feared that they will cause the very greatest disasters to posterity.\\u201d<\\/em> Leo wrote, <em>\\u201cFor an unwillingness to attribute the right of ruling to God, as its Author, is not less than a willingness to blot out the greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>He continued:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>We have reached the limit of horrors, to wit, communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin. And yet too many attempt to enlarge the scope of these evils, and under the pretext of helping the multitude, already have fanned no small flames of misery.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He didn\\u2019t know how right he would turn out to be. Writing in 1881, he didn\\u2019t know anything about the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, or any of the other communist horrors of the century to come.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Licet multa<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This 1881 encyclical is about Catholics in Belgium, but Leo XIII felt it necessary to mention socialism in contrast with Christian society.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Most assuredly we, more than any one, ought heartily to desire that human society should be governed in a Christian manner, and that the divine influence of Christ should penetrate and completely impregnate all orders of the State. From the commencement of our Pontificate we manifested, without delay, that such was our settled opinion; and that by public documents, and especially by the Encyclical Letters we published against the errors of Socialism, and, quite recently, upon the Civil Power.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Auspicato concessum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Writing about St. Francis of Assisi in 1882, Leo XIII mentioned that focusing on his institutes would develop Christian virtue and defend against socialism. <em>\\u201cThan this disposition of mind nothing is more efficacious to extinguish utterly every vice of this kind, whether violence, injuries, desire for revolution, hatred among the different ranks of society, in all which vices the beginnings and the weapons of socialism are found.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Humanum genus<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is against Freemasonry. In passing, it mentions the <em>\\u201cmonstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod multum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote this encyclical in 1886, addressed to the bishops of Hungary. He wrote that the church is an <em>\\u201ceffective means of restraining socialism.\\u201d<\\/em> He sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Nevertheless to restrain the danger of socialism there is only one genuinely effective means, in the absence of which the fear of punishment has little weight to discourage offenders. It is that citizens should be thoroughly educated in religion, and restrained by respect for and love of the Church. For the Church as parent and teacher is the holy guardian of religion, moral integrity, and virtue. All who follow the precepts of the Gospel religiously and entirely are, by this very fact, far from the suspicion of socialism. For religion commands us to worship and fear God and to submit to and obey legitimate authority. It forbids anyone to act seditiously and demands for everyone the security of his possessions and rights. It furthermore commands those who have wealth to come graciously to the aid of the poor. Religion aids the needy with all the works of charity and consoles those who suffer loss, enkindling in them the hope of the greatest eternal blessings which will be in proportion to the labor endured and the length of that labor. Therefore those who rule the states will do nothing wiser and more opportune than to recognize that religion influences the people despite all obstacles and recalls them to virtue and uprightness of character through her teachings. To distrust the Church or hold it suspect is, in the first place, unjust, and in the second, profits no one except the enemies of civil discipline and those bent on destruction.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Libertas<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">As the name suggests, this encyclical from 1888 is about the nature of liberty. Leo XIII mentions socialism as an example of a doctrine that perverts true human liberty, because it is based on revolution and envy:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>With ambitious designs on sovereignty, tumult and sedition will be common amongst the people; and when duty and conscience cease to appeal to them, there will be nothing to hold them back but force, which of itself alone is powerless to keep their covetousness in check. Of this we have almost daily evidence in the conflict with socialists and members of other seditious societies, who labor unceasingly to bring about revolution. It is for those, then, who are capable of forming a just estimate of things to decide whether such doctrines promote that true liberty which alone is worthy of man, or rather, pervert and destroy it.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Exeunte iam anno<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Written in 1888, this encyclical is about <em>\\u201cthe right ordering of a Christian life.\\u201d<\\/em> Leo XIII mentions socialism in a list of evils that result from ignoring Christian religion:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is wilfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason?<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Solzhenitsyn said that the best explanation for the evils of the Soviet Union might best be summed up with the sentence: \\u201cMen have forgotten God.\\u201d Leo XIII was foreshadowing that here.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Dall\\u2019alto dell\\u2019Apostolico seggio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Freemasonry, this one focuses on Italy and was written in 1890. Leo XIII devoted an entire section to the dangers of socialism. It begins thus:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Moreover, one of the greatest and most formidable dangers of society at the present day, is the agitation of the Socialists, who threaten to uplift it from its foundations. From this great danger Italy is not free; and although other nations may be more infested than Italy by this spirit of subversion and disorder, it is not therefore less true that even here this spirit is widely spreading and increasing every day in strength. So criminal is its nature, so great the power of its organisation and the audacity of its designs, that there is need of uniting all conservative forces, if we are to arrest its progress and successfully to prevent its triumph.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Compare those words with these, from the mission statement for National Review:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The century\\u2019s most blatant force of satanic utopianism is communism. We consider \\u201ccoexistence\\u201d with communism neither desirable nor possible, nor honorable; we find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Buckley was a Catholic, after all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Permoti nos<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Belgium, written in 1895, exhorts Belgian Catholics to stand strong against socialism. Leo XIII specifically references Rerum novarum as one of his greatest efforts to warn against the evils of socialism:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Let them rather act in the closest concert in order to oppose all their plans and strength to the wickedness of Socialism, which very clearly will cause evils and great losses. For it is constantly and in every way exerting itself violently against religion and the state; it is striving every day to throw both divine and human laws into confusion and to destroy the good works of evangelical providence. Our voice has been raised often and vehemently against this great calamity, as the commands and warnings which We gave in the Letter Rerum Novarum sufficiently testify. So to this purpose all good men should direct their minds to the exclusion of factional interests. They should uphold the sacred order of God and of their country without doubt, in their legitimate fight on behalf of Christian truth, justice, and charity. For it is from this order that public safety and happiness spring.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Spesse volte<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote to address the suppression of Catholic institutions in Italy in 1898. It bemoans the <em>\\u201cprogress of socialism and anarchy\\u201d<\\/em> and <em>\\u201cthe endless evil to which they expose the nation.\\u201d<\\/em> He wrote that the Catholic associations and charities that were being suppressed were a <em>\\u201cbulwark against the subversive theories of socialism and anarchy\\u201d<\\/em> and that they would help the people of Italy by <em>\\u201cshielding them from the perils of socialism and anarchy.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Graves de communi re<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII opens this encyclical as follows:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The grave discussions on economical questions which for same time past have disturbed the peace of several countries of the world are growing in frequency and intensity to such a degree that the minds of thoughtful men are filled, and rightly so, with worry and alarm. These discussions take their rise in the bad philosophical and ethical teaching which is now widespread among the people. The changes, also, which the mechanical inventions of the age have introduced, the rapidity of communication between places, and the devices of every kind for diminishing labor and increasing gain, all add bitterness to the strife; and, lastly, matters have been brought to such a pass by the struggle between capital and labor, fomented as it is by professional agitators, that the countries where these disturbances most frequently occur find themselves confronted with ruin and disaster.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">That was written 1901, but in many respects it could just as easily have been written in 2025.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote that he viewed it as his duty to <em>\\u201cwarn Catholics, in unmistakable language, how great the error was which was lurking in the utterances of socialism, and how great the danger was that threatened not only their temporal possessions, but also their morality and religion.\\u201d<\\/em> He said that was why he wrote Quod apolostici muneris almost immediately upon assuming the papacy, and again referenced Rerum novarum as a warning against socialism.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He then contrasted social democracy with Christian democracy. He saw social democracy as a stepping stone to socialism, because it is based on the same rejection of God and embrace of materialism. He wrote that <em>social democracy,&nbsp;with due consideration to the greater or less intemperance of its utterance, is carried to such an excess by many as to maintain that there is really nothing existing above the natural order of things, and that the acquirement and enjoyment of corporal and external goods constitute man\\u2019s happiness. It aims at putting all government in the hands of the masses, reducing all ranks to the same level, abolishing all distinction of class, and finally introducing community of goods. Hence, the right to own private property is to be abrogated, and whatever property a man possesses, or whatever means of livelihood he has, is to be common to all.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cIt is clear, therefore, that there in nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy,\\u201d Leo XIII concluded. \\u201cThey differ from each other as much as the sect of socialism differs from the profession of Christianity.\\u201d<\\/em> He later contrasted <em>\\u201cChristian sentiments\\u201d<\\/em> with <em>\\u201cthe contamination of socialism which threatens them.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII again sounds prophetic about the evils of socialism that would be coming. Again, this was written in 1901, 16 years before the Bolshevik Revolution:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The condition of things at present proclaims, and proclaims vehemently, that there is need for a union of brave minds with all the resources they can command. The harvest of misery is before our eyes, and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement. They have insidiously worked their way into the very heart of the community, and in the darkness of their secret gatherings, and in the open light of day, in their writings and their harangues, they are urging the masses onward to sedition; they fling aside religious discipline; they scorn duties; they clamor only for rights; they are working incessantly on the multitudes of the needy which daily grow greater, and which, because of their poverty are easily deluded and led into error. It is equally the concern of the State and of religion, and all good men should deem it a sacred duty to preserve and guard both in the honor which is their due.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Fin dal principio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In the penultimate encyclical of his pontificate, Leo XIII wrote about the education of Catholic clergy. He stressed the same message about the dangers of socialism and its opposition to the Christian faith, with emphasis on how priests should be educated to support Christian democracy and stay far away from any socialist causes:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>We repeat again, and still more warmly, that the clergy go to a Christian people tempted on every side, and with every kind of fallacious promise offered by Socialism to apostatize from the true faith. They must therefore submit all their actions to the authority of those whom the Holy Spirit has constituted Bishops, to rule the Church of God, without which would follow confusion and the most grave disorders to the detriment even of the cause they have at heart to defend and promote. It is for this end that we desire that the candidates for the priesthood, on the conclusion of their education in the seminary, should be suitably instructed in the pontifical documents relating to the social question, and the Christian democracy, abstaining, however, as we have already said, from taking any part whatever in the external movement.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Conclusion<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to God\\u2019s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God\\u2019s design for mankind. He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God\\u2019s authority. He used words like \\u201cevil,\\u201d \\u201cwicked,\\u201d \\u201cplague,\\u201d \\u201cmonstrous,\\u201d and \\u201chideous\\u201d to describe socialism, words he never used to reference markets or private property. On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God\\u2019s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined, by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism. If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII\\u2019s legacy in choosing his regnal name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the evils of socialism.<\\/div>\",\"state\":1,\"catid\":\"8\",\"created\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"created_by\":\"873\",\"created_by_alias\":\"\",\"modified\":\"2025-05-13 13:27:03\",\"modified_by\":\"873\",\"checked_out\":\"873\",\"checked_out_time\":\"2025-05-13 13:15:46\",\"publish_up\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"publish_down\":\"0000-00-00 00:00:00\",\"images\":\"{\\\"image_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_caption\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"urls\":\"{\\\"urla\\\":false,\\\"urlatext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targeta\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlb\\\":false,\\\"urlbtext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetb\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlc\\\":false,\\\"urlctext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetc\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"attribs\":\"{\\\"article_layout\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_titles\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_tags\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_associations\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_create_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_modify_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publish_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_item_navigation\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_icons\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_print_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_email_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_vote\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_hits\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_noauth\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urls_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"alternative_readmore\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"article_page_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publishing_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_article_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_backend\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_frontend\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"version\":4,\"ordering\":\"0\",\"metakey\":\"\",\"metadesc\":\"\",\"access\":\"1\",\"hits\":\"6\",\"metadata\":\"{\\\"robots\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"rights\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"xreference\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"featured\":\"1\",\"language\":\"*\",\"xreference\":\"\",\"note\":\"\"}',0),(6339,2152,1,'','2025-05-13 13:28:43',873,32864,'e2ceb77479bb693ffa203a30ac0b5a903e5c2e5b','{\"id\":2152,\"asset_id\":\"2464\",\"title\":\"The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -\\u00a0By Dominic Pino -\\u00a0May 9, 2025 6:42 AM\",\"alias\":\"the-last-pope-leo-had-some-great-takes-on-socialism-by-dominic-pino-may-9-2025-6-42-am\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism -&nbsp;By Dominic Pino -&nbsp;May 9, 2025 <span style=\\\"font-size: 14pt;\\\">6:42 AM<\\/span><br \\/><img src=\\\"images\\/pope_leo_xiii.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"pope leo xiii\\\" width=\\\"222\\\" height=\\\"297\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" hspace=\\\"10\\/\\\" \\/><\\/h1>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The new pope is taking the regnal name Leo XIV. The last Pope Leo was in office from 1878 to 1903. Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891 encyclical \\u201con capital and labor\\u201d that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching. This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property are essential to human flourishing. And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to end.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Rerum novarum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let\\u2019s start, though, with Rerum novarum, since it has been so much more influential than his other works. Writing in 1891, Leo XIII said:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The socialists, working on the poor man\\u2019s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cSocialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life,\\u201d the encyclical says. \\u201cEvery man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cThe socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home,\\u201d Leo XIII wrote. He goes on:<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the levelling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation. Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">No wiggle room there. Private property is God-ordained and fundamental to human life. Leo XIII\\u2019s criticism of capitalism is much more nuanced and restrained. He saw a greater role for organized labor than the U.S. has typically had, and the working classes in Europe were genuinely in worse shape in the late 1800s than they are today. Part of the solution, he believed, was not greater government control but rather more private ownership, and he wrote that government policy \\u201cshould be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod apostolici muneris<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Now, back to the start. Leo XIII devoted his entire second encyclical, 1878\\u2019s Quod apostolici muneris, to the subject of socialism. In the first paragraph, he wrote, <em>\\u201cYou understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning \\u2013 the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Of socialists, Leo XIII wrote:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, \\u201cDefile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.\\u201d They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is \\u201cthe root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,\\u201d they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one\\u2019s mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Tell us what you really think!<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cBut the boldness of these bad men, which day by day more and more threatens civil society with destruction, and strikes the souls of all with anxiety and fear, finds its cause and origin in those poisonous doctrines which, spread abroad in former times among the people, like evil seed bore in due time such fatal fruit,\\u201d Leo XIII continued. He saw the church as a source of \\u201cdoctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He accused socialists of \\u201cstealing the very Gospel itself\\u201d and said they would \\u201cstrive almost completely to dissolve\\u201d the bonds of family. He concluded, <em>\\u201cAnd since they know that the Church of Christ has such power to ward off the plague of socialism as cannot be found in human laws, in the mandates of magistrates, or in the force of armies, let them restore that Church to the condition and liberty in which she may exert her healing force for the benefit of all society.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Diuturnum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is about the <em>\\u201corigin of civil power.\\u201d<\\/em> It also mentions socialism, in a paragraph that begins by noting that <em>\\u201cthe doctrines on political power invented by late writers have already produced great ills amongst men, and it is to be feared that they will cause the very greatest disasters to posterity.\\u201d<\\/em> Leo wrote, <em>\\u201cFor an unwillingness to attribute the right of ruling to God, as its Author, is not less than a willingness to blot out the greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>He continued:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>We have reached the limit of horrors, to wit, communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin. And yet too many attempt to enlarge the scope of these evils, and under the pretext of helping the multitude, already have fanned no small flames of misery.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He didn\\u2019t know how right he would turn out to be. Writing in 1881, he didn\\u2019t know anything about the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, or any of the other communist horrors of the century to come.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Licet multa<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This 1881 encyclical is about Catholics in Belgium, but Leo XIII felt it necessary to mention socialism in contrast with Christian society.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Most assuredly we, more than any one, ought heartily to desire that human society should be governed in a Christian manner, and that the divine influence of Christ should penetrate and completely impregnate all orders of the State. From the commencement of our Pontificate we manifested, without delay, that such was our settled opinion; and that by public documents, and especially by the Encyclical Letters we published against the errors of Socialism, and, quite recently, upon the Civil Power.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Auspicato concessum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Writing about St. Francis of Assisi in 1882, Leo XIII mentioned that focusing on his institutes would develop Christian virtue and defend against socialism. <em>\\u201cThan this disposition of mind nothing is more efficacious to extinguish utterly every vice of this kind, whether violence, injuries, desire for revolution, hatred among the different ranks of society, in all which vices the beginnings and the weapons of socialism are found.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Humanum genus<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is against Freemasonry. In passing, it mentions the <em>\\u201cmonstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod multum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote this encyclical in 1886, addressed to the bishops of Hungary. He wrote that the church is an <em>\\u201ceffective means of restraining socialism.\\u201d<\\/em> He sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Nevertheless to restrain the danger of socialism there is only one genuinely effective means, in the absence of which the fear of punishment has little weight to discourage offenders. It is that citizens should be thoroughly educated in religion, and restrained by respect for and love of the Church. For the Church as parent and teacher is the holy guardian of religion, moral integrity, and virtue. All who follow the precepts of the Gospel religiously and entirely are, by this very fact, far from the suspicion of socialism. For religion commands us to worship and fear God and to submit to and obey legitimate authority. It forbids anyone to act seditiously and demands for everyone the security of his possessions and rights. It furthermore commands those who have wealth to come graciously to the aid of the poor. Religion aids the needy with all the works of charity and consoles those who suffer loss, enkindling in them the hope of the greatest eternal blessings which will be in proportion to the labor endured and the length of that labor. Therefore those who rule the states will do nothing wiser and more opportune than to recognize that religion influences the people despite all obstacles and recalls them to virtue and uprightness of character through her teachings. To distrust the Church or hold it suspect is, in the first place, unjust, and in the second, profits no one except the enemies of civil discipline and those bent on destruction.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Libertas<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">As the name suggests, this encyclical from 1888 is about the nature of liberty. Leo XIII mentions socialism as an example of a doctrine that perverts true human liberty, because it is based on revolution and envy:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>With ambitious designs on sovereignty, tumult and sedition will be common amongst the people; and when duty and conscience cease to appeal to them, there will be nothing to hold them back but force, which of itself alone is powerless to keep their covetousness in check. Of this we have almost daily evidence in the conflict with socialists and members of other seditious societies, who labor unceasingly to bring about revolution. It is for those, then, who are capable of forming a just estimate of things to decide whether such doctrines promote that true liberty which alone is worthy of man, or rather, pervert and destroy it.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Exeunte iam anno<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Written in 1888, this encyclical is about <em>\\u201cthe right ordering of a Christian life.\\u201d<\\/em> Leo XIII mentions socialism in a list of evils that result from ignoring Christian religion:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is wilfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason?<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Solzhenitsyn said that the best explanation for the evils of the Soviet Union might best be summed up with the sentence: \\u201cMen have forgotten God.\\u201d Leo XIII was foreshadowing that here.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Dall\\u2019alto dell\\u2019Apostolico seggio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Freemasonry, this one focuses on Italy and was written in 1890. Leo XIII devoted an entire section to the dangers of socialism. It begins thus:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Moreover, one of the greatest and most formidable dangers of society at the present day, is the agitation of the Socialists, who threaten to uplift it from its foundations. From this great danger Italy is not free; and although other nations may be more infested than Italy by this spirit of subversion and disorder, it is not therefore less true that even here this spirit is widely spreading and increasing every day in strength. So criminal is its nature, so great the power of its organisation and the audacity of its designs, that there is need of uniting all conservative forces, if we are to arrest its progress and successfully to prevent its triumph.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Compare those words with these, from the mission statement for National Review:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The century\\u2019s most blatant force of satanic utopianism is communism. We consider \\u201ccoexistence\\u201d with communism neither desirable nor possible, nor honorable; we find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Buckley was a Catholic, after all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Permoti nos<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Belgium, written in 1895, exhorts Belgian Catholics to stand strong against socialism. Leo XIII specifically references Rerum novarum as one of his greatest efforts to warn against the evils of socialism:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Let them rather act in the closest concert in order to oppose all their plans and strength to the wickedness of Socialism, which very clearly will cause evils and great losses. For it is constantly and in every way exerting itself violently against religion and the state; it is striving every day to throw both divine and human laws into confusion and to destroy the good works of evangelical providence. Our voice has been raised often and vehemently against this great calamity, as the commands and warnings which We gave in the Letter Rerum Novarum sufficiently testify. So to this purpose all good men should direct their minds to the exclusion of factional interests. They should uphold the sacred order of God and of their country without doubt, in their legitimate fight on behalf of Christian truth, justice, and charity. For it is from this order that public safety and happiness spring.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Spesse volte<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote to address the suppression of Catholic institutions in Italy in 1898. It bemoans the <em>\\u201cprogress of socialism and anarchy\\u201d<\\/em> and <em>\\u201cthe endless evil to which they expose the nation.\\u201d<\\/em> He wrote that the Catholic associations and charities that were being suppressed were a <em>\\u201cbulwark against the subversive theories of socialism and anarchy\\u201d<\\/em> and that they would help the people of Italy by <em>\\u201cshielding them from the perils of socialism and anarchy.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Graves de communi re<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII opens this encyclical as follows:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The grave discussions on economical questions which for same time past have disturbed the peace of several countries of the world are growing in frequency and intensity to such a degree that the minds of thoughtful men are filled, and rightly so, with worry and alarm. These discussions take their rise in the bad philosophical and ethical teaching which is now widespread among the people. The changes, also, which the mechanical inventions of the age have introduced, the rapidity of communication between places, and the devices of every kind for diminishing labor and increasing gain, all add bitterness to the strife; and, lastly, matters have been brought to such a pass by the struggle between capital and labor, fomented as it is by professional agitators, that the countries where these disturbances most frequently occur find themselves confronted with ruin and disaster.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">That was written 1901, but in many respects it could just as easily have been written in 2025.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote that he viewed it as his duty to <em>\\u201cwarn Catholics, in unmistakable language, how great the error was which was lurking in the utterances of socialism, and how great the danger was that threatened not only their temporal possessions, but also their morality and religion.\\u201d<\\/em> He said that was why he wrote Quod apolostici muneris almost immediately upon assuming the papacy, and again referenced Rerum novarum as a warning against socialism.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He then contrasted social democracy with Christian democracy. He saw social democracy as a stepping stone to socialism, because it is based on the same rejection of God and embrace of materialism. He wrote that <em>social democracy,&nbsp;with due consideration to the greater or less intemperance of its utterance, is carried to such an excess by many as to maintain that there is really nothing existing above the natural order of things, and that the acquirement and enjoyment of corporal and external goods constitute man\\u2019s happiness. It aims at putting all government in the hands of the masses, reducing all ranks to the same level, abolishing all distinction of class, and finally introducing community of goods. Hence, the right to own private property is to be abrogated, and whatever property a man possesses, or whatever means of livelihood he has, is to be common to all.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cIt is clear, therefore, that there in nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy,\\u201d Leo XIII concluded. \\u201cThey differ from each other as much as the sect of socialism differs from the profession of Christianity.\\u201d<\\/em> He later contrasted <em>\\u201cChristian sentiments\\u201d<\\/em> with <em>\\u201cthe contamination of socialism which threatens them.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII again sounds prophetic about the evils of socialism that would be coming. Again, this was written in 1901, 16 years before the Bolshevik Revolution:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The condition of things at present proclaims, and proclaims vehemently, that there is need for a union of brave minds with all the resources they can command. The harvest of misery is before our eyes, and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement. They have insidiously worked their way into the very heart of the community, and in the darkness of their secret gatherings, and in the open light of day, in their writings and their harangues, they are urging the masses onward to sedition; they fling aside religious discipline; they scorn duties; they clamor only for rights; they are working incessantly on the multitudes of the needy which daily grow greater, and which, because of their poverty are easily deluded and led into error. It is equally the concern of the State and of religion, and all good men should deem it a sacred duty to preserve and guard both in the honor which is their due.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Fin dal principio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In the penultimate encyclical of his pontificate, Leo XIII wrote about the education of Catholic clergy. He stressed the same message about the dangers of socialism and its opposition to the Christian faith, with emphasis on how priests should be educated to support Christian democracy and stay far away from any socialist causes:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>We repeat again, and still more warmly, that the clergy go to a Christian people tempted on every side, and with every kind of fallacious promise offered by Socialism to apostatize from the true faith. They must therefore submit all their actions to the authority of those whom the Holy Spirit has constituted Bishops, to rule the Church of God, without which would follow confusion and the most grave disorders to the detriment even of the cause they have at heart to defend and promote. It is for this end that we desire that the candidates for the priesthood, on the conclusion of their education in the seminary, should be suitably instructed in the pontifical documents relating to the social question, and the Christian democracy, abstaining, however, as we have already said, from taking any part whatever in the external movement.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Conclusion<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to God\\u2019s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God\\u2019s design for mankind. He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God\\u2019s authority. He used words like \\u201cevil,\\u201d \\u201cwicked,\\u201d \\u201cplague,\\u201d \\u201cmonstrous,\\u201d and \\u201chideous\\u201d to describe socialism, words he never used to reference markets or private property. On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God\\u2019s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined, by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism. 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Some need physical or emotional healing; others are in search of peace and forgiveness. Whatever our condition, God meets us in the valley of our need. Indeed, the Lord reveals Himself to man as Heaven\'s answer for our needs. He is a \\\"father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows.\\\" He even makes \\\"a home for the lonely\\\" and leads \\\"out the prisoners into prosperity\\\" (Psalm 68:5\\u20136 NASB).<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">God uses our need to draw us to Christ. Yet, the consciousness of our need narrows our revelation of God, limiting His activity in our lives to the boundaries of our struggles.&nbsp;<strong>Thus, many Christians have never awakened spiritually to the deeper call of God, which is to attain the likeness of Christ.<\\/strong>&nbsp;We are forgiven, healed and blessed, but we experience a ceiling on our spiritual growth.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p class=\\\"subtitle\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Compelled to Christ-Likeness<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Regardless, the Spirit of God remains committed to our personal transformation. If we should awaken spiritually to the vision of Christlikeness, the attention of God will approach us in a unique and powerful way. 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The seven churches addressed in Revelation are named in the sequence of the ages, or time periods, they represent. 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If we do not see them through the Lord\\u2019s eyes, they can lead to cynicism and critical judgments of the church\\u2014and of people\\u2014which can darken our hearts. Let us keep in mind that not every church that has claimed to be the church of Jesus Christ was built by Him. His church has always been \\u201ca little flock,\\u201d a remnant that has resisted trying to build for this age. Rather, it seeks the city God is building, a heavenly city.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The church the Lord is building is \\u201cnot of this world\\u201d and is in contrast to the spirit of the world and the church man is building, which is of this world and, in many ways, is contrary to the Spirit of God. Distinguishing between these is one of the primary messages of the entire book of Revelation. The distinction between what man is building and what God is building addresses some of the most fundamental differences between walking with God and just adhering to religious practices. These are two different paths, and they are coming to an ultimate clash at the end of the age. This is a basic message of Revelation, and it is critical for us to understand now.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; These two ways are as different as the attempt by men to build a tower to heaven and Abraham\\u2019s pursuit of the city God is building. The men of Shinar sought to build a city for themselves and to make a name for themselves\\u2014not God\\u2014so they would not be scattered over the earth (see Genesis 11:4). In contrast, in the next chapter, God gave Abraham everything the men of Shinar had vainly sought. 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It is contemplative,&nbsp;encouraging, and personally challenging.<br \\/> <br \\/> Our second article is revisiting how some&nbsp;believers in China used masks and the pandemic to share the Gospel in Wuhan, where the virus first broke out. Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/> <br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/> <br \\/> <em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. Thank you.&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=55d5a368a9&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">Click Here to Donate Today!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>TODAY\'S ARTICLES<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Letter to a Prisoner<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/19\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> In this letter to a Christian brother imprisoned for his faith, Early Rain elder Li Yingqiang thinks about what it means for his dear friend to follow Christ inside the detention center. He admires his friend\\u2019s faith, and is encouraged because they are united by faith and through prayer, even though they cannot be together physically. Li does not know if he will one day have to walk the same path as his friend, but he trusts that God\\u2019s grace is sufficient, no matter the road ahead.<br \\/> <br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=56bb3e5944&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p><strong><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/c85c3888-2dff-f3e7-a88a-020e7d05015b.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"188\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000093\\\" \\/><\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Remember<br \\/> my chains.<br \\/> Col. 4:18<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Sharing Masks and Sharing the Gospel<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/15\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em>\\r\\n<p>At a time when local citizens were especially short of pandemic prevention supplies, we were able to distribute masks and evangelize at the same time...For the first time in ten years of preaching the gospel, we saw a change in the attitude of citizens toward our evangelistic efforts.<\\/p>\\r\\n<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=4c938a5665&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/83a667c9-32a0-8c69-0f2a-ea53e7166f05.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"187\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000079\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Stop the Deception<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<h1>&nbsp;<\\/h1>\\r\\n<strong>How to Stop the Global Spread of Rage, Deception and Insanity<\\/strong>\\r\\n<p>Did you know we can be infected by offense? 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each day at noon the <strong>\\u201cNoon Time prayer for America and Donald Trump.\\u201d<\\/strong> To download that prayer go to: <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=5b0ce38e1c&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><\\/a><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/bit.ly\\/FreePrayerLink\\\">https:\\/\\/bit.ly\\/FreePrayerLink<\\/a>.<br \\/> <br \\/> 2) Sign up for our <strong><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=c3654433b9&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">City-by-City.org<\\/a> weekly prayer email<\\/strong> where together we pray over our cities and our nation.<br \\/> <br \\/> 3) <strong>For those in the Tulsa area,<\\/strong> join us every 2nd and 4th Monday evening for our <strong>AwakeOklahoma.com prayer for revival and our government leaders.<\\/strong> Email Karen at <a 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It is contemplative,&nbsp;encouraging, and personally challenging.<br \\/><br \\/> Our second article is revisiting how some&nbsp;believers in China used masks and the pandemic to share the Gospel in Wuhan, where the virus first broke out. Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/><em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong><strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. 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He admires his friend\\u2019s faith, and is encouraged because they are united by faith and through prayer, even though they cannot be together physically. 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Thank you.&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/d956041b-3399-5618-785b-95a5b85e610f.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"563.9915161132812\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>May 28,&nbsp;2025<br \\/><br \\/> Today, read a letter to a Christian prisoner in China from a Christian brother in his church. It is contemplative,&nbsp;encouraging, and personally challenging.<br \\/><br \\/> Our second article is revisiting how some&nbsp;believers in China used masks and the pandemic to share the Gospel in Wuhan, where the virus first broke out. Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/><em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong><strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. Thank you.&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<p>&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=55d5a368a9&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">Click Here to Donate Today!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>TODAY\'S ARTICLES<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Letter to a Prisoner<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/19\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> In this letter to a Christian brother imprisoned for his faith, Early Rain elder Li Yingqiang thinks about what it means for his dear friend to follow Christ inside the detention center. He admires his friend\\u2019s faith, and is encouraged because they are united by faith and through prayer, even though they cannot be together physically. Li does not know if he will one day have to walk the same path as his friend, but he trusts that God\\u2019s grace is sufficient, no matter the road ahead.<br \\/> <br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=56bb3e5944&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p><strong><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/c85c3888-2dff-f3e7-a88a-020e7d05015b.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"188\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000093\\\" \\/><\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Remember<br \\/> my chains.<br \\/> Col. 4:18<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Sharing Masks and Sharing the Gospel<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/15\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em>\\r\\n<p>At a time when local citizens were especially short of pandemic prevention supplies, we were able to distribute masks and evangelize at the same time...For the first time in ten years of preaching the gospel, we saw a change in the attitude of citizens toward our evangelistic efforts.<\\/p>\\r\\n<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=4c938a5665&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/83a667c9-32a0-8c69-0f2a-ea53e7166f05.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"187\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000079\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Stop the Deception<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<h1>&nbsp;<\\/h1>\\r\\n<strong>How to Stop the Global Spread of Rage, Deception and Insanity<\\/strong>\\r\\n<p>Did you know we can be infected by offense? It is a poison that creates deep roots in our lives which can destroy not only friendships, but our mental and physical health. There is a 7-stage \\u201cvirus\\u201d that is clearly repeated throughout the Bible when people have taken offense. It is dangerous\\u2026but it can be stopped. This is one of the most important books you will read this year. $15 for one or $25 for two.<\\/p>\\r\\n<br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=dfe7bfcca5&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<\\/strong>order!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/17e9394e-fe2b-87a5-b7f0-ad7a46f9ca4d.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"337\\\" data-file-id=\\\"5991381\\\" 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src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/84584b09-bfb9-6772-d628-7cc3369b8511.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"500\\\" \\/> <\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>God\'s Unstoppable Prayer Army<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>1) Please join with thousands across our nation as we pray each day at noon the <strong>\\u201cNoon Time prayer for America and Donald Trump.\\u201d<\\/strong> To download that prayer go to: <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=5b0ce38e1c&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><\\/a><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/bit.ly\\/FreePrayerLink\\\">https:\\/\\/bit.ly\\/FreePrayerLink<\\/a>.<br \\/> <br \\/> 2) Sign up for our <strong><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=c3654433b9&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">City-by-City.org<\\/a> weekly prayer email<\\/strong> where together we pray over our cities and our nation.<br \\/> <br \\/> 3) <strong>For those in the Tulsa area,<\\/strong> join us every 2nd and 4th Monday evening for our <strong>AwakeOklahoma.com prayer for revival and our government leaders.<\\/strong> Email Karen at <a 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It is contemplative,&nbsp;encouraging, and personally challenging.<br \\/><br \\/> Our second article is revisiting how some&nbsp;believers in China used masks and the pandemic to share the Gospel in Wuhan, where the virus first broke out. Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/><em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong><strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. Thank you.&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/d956041b-3399-5618-785b-95a5b85e610f.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"563.9915161132812\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>May 28,&nbsp;2025<br \\/><br \\/> Today, read a letter to a Christian prisoner in China from a Christian brother in his church. It is contemplative,&nbsp;encouraging, and personally challenging.<br \\/><br \\/> Our second article is revisiting how some&nbsp;believers in China used masks and the pandemic to share the Gospel in Wuhan, where the virus first broke out. Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/><em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong><strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. Thank you.&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<p>&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=55d5a368a9&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">Click Here to Donate Today!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>TODAY\'S ARTICLES<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Letter to a Prisoner<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/19\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> In this letter to a Christian brother imprisoned for his faith, Early Rain elder Li Yingqiang thinks about what it means for his dear friend to follow Christ inside the detention center. He admires his friend\\u2019s faith, and is encouraged because they are united by faith and through prayer, even though they cannot be together physically. Li does not know if he will one day have to walk the same path as his friend, but he trusts that God\\u2019s grace is sufficient, no matter the road ahead.<br \\/> <br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=56bb3e5944&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p><strong><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/c85c3888-2dff-f3e7-a88a-020e7d05015b.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"188\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000093\\\" \\/><\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Remember<br \\/> my chains.<br \\/> Col. 4:18<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Sharing Masks and Sharing the Gospel<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/15\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em>\\r\\n<p>At a time when local citizens were especially short of pandemic prevention supplies, we were able to distribute masks and evangelize at the same time...For the first time in ten years of preaching the gospel, we saw a change in the attitude of citizens toward our evangelistic efforts.<\\/p>\\r\\n<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=4c938a5665&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/83a667c9-32a0-8c69-0f2a-ea53e7166f05.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"187\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000079\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Stop the Deception<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<h1>&nbsp;<\\/h1>\\r\\n<strong>How to Stop the Global Spread of Rage, Deception and Insanity<\\/strong>\\r\\n<p>Did you know we can be infected by offense? 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This is one of the most important books you will read this year. $15 for one or $25 for two.<\\/p>\\r\\n<br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=dfe7bfcca5&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<\\/strong>order!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/17e9394e-fe2b-87a5-b7f0-ad7a46f9ca4d.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"337\\\" data-file-id=\\\"5991381\\\" 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It is contemplative,&nbsp;encouraging, and personally challenging.<br \\/><br \\/> Our second article is revisiting how some&nbsp;believers in China used masks and the pandemic to share the Gospel in Wuhan, where the virus first broke out. Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/><em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong><strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. 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Praise God for bold, creative witnesses!<br \\/><br \\/> In Christ,<br \\/><br \\/><em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong> IMPORTANT PRAYER REQUEST!<\\/strong><strong>Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for a state officer&nbsp;position within the Oklahoma GOP party. <\\/strong>This position would give her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong> The election by the State Committee of the Oklahoma Republican Party for this position is this Saturday, May 31. <\\/strong>Pray with us for God\'s will to be done. Thank you.&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<p>&nbsp;<\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=55d5a368a9&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">Click Here to Donate Today!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>TODAY\'S ARTICLES<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Letter to a Prisoner<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/19\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> In this letter to a Christian brother imprisoned for his faith, Early Rain elder Li Yingqiang thinks about what it means for his dear friend to follow Christ inside the detention center. He admires his friend\\u2019s faith, and is encouraged because they are united by faith and through prayer, even though they cannot be together physically. Li does not know if he will one day have to walk the same path as his friend, but he trusts that God\\u2019s grace is sufficient, no matter the road ahead.<br \\/> <br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=56bb3e5944&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p><strong><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/c85c3888-2dff-f3e7-a88a-020e7d05015b.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"188\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000093\\\" \\/><\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Remember<br \\/> my chains.<br \\/> Col. 4:18<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Sharing Masks and Sharing the Gospel<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> 5\\/15\\/25&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<em>www.ChinaPartnership.org<\\/em>\\r\\n<p>At a time when local citizens were especially short of pandemic prevention supplies, we were able to distribute masks and evangelize at the same time...For the first time in ten years of preaching the gospel, we saw a change in the attitude of citizens toward our evangelistic efforts.<\\/p>\\r\\n<a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=4c938a5665&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><\\/a> to read more!<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/83a667c9-32a0-8c69-0f2a-ea53e7166f05.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"187\\\" data-file-id=\\\"6000079\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Stop the Deception<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<h1>&nbsp;<\\/h1>\\r\\n<strong>How to Stop the Global Spread of Rage, Deception and Insanity<\\/strong>\\r\\n<p>Did you know we can be infected by offense? It is a poison that creates deep roots in our lives which can destroy not only friendships, but our mental and physical health. There is a 7-stage \\u201cvirus\\u201d that is clearly repeated throughout the Bible when people have taken offense. It is dangerous\\u2026but it can be stopped. This is one of the most important books you will read this year. $15 for one or $25 for two.<\\/p>\\r\\n<br \\/> <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=dfe7bfcca5&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\\/strong><strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<\\/strong>order!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/17e9394e-fe2b-87a5-b7f0-ad7a46f9ca4d.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" height=\\\"337\\\" data-file-id=\\\"5991381\\\" 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src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/84584b09-bfb9-6772-d628-7cc3369b8511.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"500\\\" \\/> <\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>God\'s Unstoppable Prayer Army<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>1) Please join with thousands across our nation as we pray 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They had been out fishing all night without any success. Then when they were giving up and coming back to shore, Jesus appeared and told them to throw their nets on the other side of the boat.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">I can only imagine what they were thinking! \\\"How is that going to help? We\'re exhausted. We\'re done!\\\" But Jesus persisted in His request, \\\"Throw out your nets once again but on the other side.\\\"<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Some of you may be feeling like His disciples on that day. You\'ve worked hard and tirelessly. 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They had been out fishing all night without any success. Then when they were giving up and coming back to shore, Jesus appeared and told them to throw their nets on the other side of the boat.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">I can only imagine what they were thinking! \\\"How is that going to help? We\'re exhausted. We\'re done!\\\" But Jesus persisted in His request, \\\"Throw out your nets once again but on the other side.\\\"<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Some of you may be feeling like His disciples on that day. You\'ve worked hard and tirelessly. 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The last Pope Leo was in office from 1878 to 1903. Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891 encyclical \\u201con capital and labor\\u201d that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching. This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property are essential to human flourishing. And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to end.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Rerum novarum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Let\\u2019s start, though, with Rerum novarum, since it has been so much more influential than his other works. Writing in 1891, Leo XIII said:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The socialists, working on the poor man\\u2019s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cSocialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life,\\u201d the encyclical says. \\u201cEvery man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cThe socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home,\\u201d Leo XIII wrote. He goes on:<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>And in addition to injustice, it is only too evident what an upset and disturbance there would be in all classes, and to how intolerable and hateful a slavery citizens would be subjected. The door would be thrown open to envy, to mutual invective, and to discord; the sources of wealth themselves would run dry, for no one would have any interest in exerting his talents or his industry; and that ideal equality about which they entertain pleasant dreams would be in reality the levelling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation. Hence, it is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">No wiggle room there. Private property is God-ordained and fundamental to human life. Leo XIII\\u2019s criticism of capitalism is much more nuanced and restrained. He saw a greater role for organized labor than the U.S. has typically had, and the working classes in Europe were genuinely in worse shape in the late 1800s than they are today. Part of the solution, he believed, was not greater government control but rather more private ownership, and he wrote that government policy \\u201cshould be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.\\u201d<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod apostolici muneris<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Now, back to the start. Leo XIII devoted his entire second encyclical, 1878\\u2019s Quod apostolici muneris, to the subject of socialism. In the first paragraph, he wrote, <em>\\u201cYou understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning \\u2013 the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Of socialists, Leo XIII wrote:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Surely these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, \\u201cDefile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.\\u201d They leave nothing untouched or whole which by both human and divine laws has been wisely decreed for the health and beauty of life. They refuse obedience to the higher powers, to whom, according to the admonition of the Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, and who derive the right of governing from God; and they proclaim the absolute equality of all men in rights and duties. They debase the natural union of man and woman, which is held sacred even among barbarous peoples; and its bond, by which the family is chiefly held together, they weaken, or even deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by the greed of present goods, which is \\u201cthe root of all evils, which some coveting have erred from the faith,\\u201d they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, while they seem desirous of caring for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to seize and hold in common whatever has been acquired either by title of lawful inheritance, or by labor of brain and hands, or by thrift in one\\u2019s mode of life. These are the startling theories they utter in their meetings, set forth in their pamphlets, and scatter abroad in a cloud of journals and tracts. Wherefore, the revered majesty and power of kings has won such fierce hatred from their seditious people that disloyal traitors, impatient of all restraint, have more than once within a short period raised their arms in impious attempt against the lives of their own sovereigns.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Tell us what you really think!<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cBut the boldness of these bad men, which day by day more and more threatens civil society with destruction, and strikes the souls of all with anxiety and fear, finds its cause and origin in those poisonous doctrines which, spread abroad in former times among the people, like evil seed bore in due time such fatal fruit,\\u201d Leo XIII continued. He saw the church as a source of \\u201cdoctrines and precepts whose special object is the safety and peace of society and the uprooting of the evil growth of socialism.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He accused socialists of \\u201cstealing the very Gospel itself\\u201d and said they would \\u201cstrive almost completely to dissolve\\u201d the bonds of family. He concluded, <em>\\u201cAnd since they know that the Church of Christ has such power to ward off the plague of socialism as cannot be found in human laws, in the mandates of magistrates, or in the force of armies, let them restore that Church to the condition and liberty in which she may exert her healing force for the benefit of all society.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Diuturnum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is about the <em>\\u201corigin of civil power.\\u201d<\\/em> It also mentions socialism, in a paragraph that begins by noting that <em>\\u201cthe doctrines on political power invented by late writers have already produced great ills amongst men, and it is to be feared that they will cause the very greatest disasters to posterity.\\u201d<\\/em> Leo wrote, <em>\\u201cFor an unwillingness to attribute the right of ruling to God, as its Author, is not less than a willingness to blot out the greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>He continued:<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>We have reached the limit of horrors, to wit, communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin. And yet too many attempt to enlarge the scope of these evils, and under the pretext of helping the multitude, already have fanned no small flames of misery.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He didn\\u2019t know how right he would turn out to be. Writing in 1881, he didn\\u2019t know anything about the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, or any of the other communist horrors of the century to come.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Licet multa<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This 1881 encyclical is about Catholics in Belgium, but Leo XIII felt it necessary to mention socialism in contrast with Christian society.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Most assuredly we, more than any one, ought heartily to desire that human society should be governed in a Christian manner, and that the divine influence of Christ should penetrate and completely impregnate all orders of the State. From the commencement of our Pontificate we manifested, without delay, that such was our settled opinion; and that by public documents, and especially by the Encyclical Letters we published against the errors of Socialism, and, quite recently, upon the Civil Power.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Auspicato concessum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Writing about St. Francis of Assisi in 1882, Leo XIII mentioned that focusing on his institutes would develop Christian virtue and defend against socialism. <em>\\u201cThan this disposition of mind nothing is more efficacious to extinguish utterly every vice of this kind, whether violence, injuries, desire for revolution, hatred among the different ranks of society, in all which vices the beginnings and the weapons of socialism are found.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Humanum genus<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">This encyclical is against Freemasonry. In passing, it mentions the <em>\\u201cmonstrous doctrines of the socialists and communists.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Quod multum<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote this encyclical in 1886, addressed to the bishops of Hungary. He wrote that the church is an <em>\\u201ceffective means of restraining socialism.\\u201d<\\/em> He sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Nevertheless to restrain the danger of socialism there is only one genuinely effective means, in the absence of which the fear of punishment has little weight to discourage offenders. It is that citizens should be thoroughly educated in religion, and restrained by respect for and love of the Church. For the Church as parent and teacher is the holy guardian of religion, moral integrity, and virtue. All who follow the precepts of the Gospel religiously and entirely are, by this very fact, far from the suspicion of socialism. For religion commands us to worship and fear God and to submit to and obey legitimate authority. It forbids anyone to act seditiously and demands for everyone the security of his possessions and rights. It furthermore commands those who have wealth to come graciously to the aid of the poor. Religion aids the needy with all the works of charity and consoles those who suffer loss, enkindling in them the hope of the greatest eternal blessings which will be in proportion to the labor endured and the length of that labor. Therefore those who rule the states will do nothing wiser and more opportune than to recognize that religion influences the people despite all obstacles and recalls them to virtue and uprightness of character through her teachings. To distrust the Church or hold it suspect is, in the first place, unjust, and in the second, profits no one except the enemies of civil discipline and those bent on destruction.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Libertas<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">As the name suggests, this encyclical from 1888 is about the nature of liberty. Leo XIII mentions socialism as an example of a doctrine that perverts true human liberty, because it is based on revolution and envy:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>With ambitious designs on sovereignty, tumult and sedition will be common amongst the people; and when duty and conscience cease to appeal to them, there will be nothing to hold them back but force, which of itself alone is powerless to keep their covetousness in check. Of this we have almost daily evidence in the conflict with socialists and members of other seditious societies, who labor unceasingly to bring about revolution. It is for those, then, who are capable of forming a just estimate of things to decide whether such doctrines promote that true liberty which alone is worthy of man, or rather, pervert and destroy it.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Exeunte iam anno<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Written in 1888, this encyclical is about <em>\\u201cthe right ordering of a Christian life.\\u201d<\\/em> Leo XIII mentions socialism in a list of evils that result from ignoring Christian religion:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>In this way We daily see the numerous ills which afflict all classes of men. These poisonous doctrines have utterly corrupted both public and private life; rationalism, materialism, atheism, have begotten socialism, communism, nihilism evil principles which it was not only fitting should have sprung from such parentage but were its necessary offspring. In truth, if the Catholic religion is wilfully rejected, whose divine origin is made clear by such unmistakable signs, what reason is there why every form of religion should not be rejected, not upheld, by such criteria of truth? If the soul is one with the body, and if therefore no hope of a happy eternity remains when the body dies, what reason is there for men to undertake toil and suffering here in subjecting the appetites to right reason?<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Solzhenitsyn said that the best explanation for the evils of the Soviet Union might best be summed up with the sentence: \\u201cMen have forgotten God.\\u201d Leo XIII was foreshadowing that here.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Dall\\u2019alto dell\\u2019Apostolico seggio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Freemasonry, this one focuses on Italy and was written in 1890. Leo XIII devoted an entire section to the dangers of socialism. It begins thus:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Moreover, one of the greatest and most formidable dangers of society at the present day, is the agitation of the Socialists, who threaten to uplift it from its foundations. From this great danger Italy is not free; and although other nations may be more infested than Italy by this spirit of subversion and disorder, it is not therefore less true that even here this spirit is widely spreading and increasing every day in strength. So criminal is its nature, so great the power of its organisation and the audacity of its designs, that there is need of uniting all conservative forces, if we are to arrest its progress and successfully to prevent its triumph.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Compare those words with these, from the mission statement for National Review:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">The century\\u2019s most blatant force of satanic utopianism is communism. We consider \\u201ccoexistence\\u201d with communism neither desirable nor possible, nor honorable; we find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Buckley was a Catholic, after all.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Permoti nos<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Another encyclical about Belgium, written in 1895, exhorts Belgian Catholics to stand strong against socialism. Leo XIII specifically references Rerum novarum as one of his greatest efforts to warn against the evils of socialism:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>Let them rather act in the closest concert in order to oppose all their plans and strength to the wickedness of Socialism, which very clearly will cause evils and great losses. For it is constantly and in every way exerting itself violently against religion and the state; it is striving every day to throw both divine and human laws into confusion and to destroy the good works of evangelical providence. Our voice has been raised often and vehemently against this great calamity, as the commands and warnings which We gave in the Letter Rerum Novarum sufficiently testify. So to this purpose all good men should direct their minds to the exclusion of factional interests. They should uphold the sacred order of God and of their country without doubt, in their legitimate fight on behalf of Christian truth, justice, and charity. For it is from this order that public safety and happiness spring.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Spesse volte<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote to address the suppression of Catholic institutions in Italy in 1898. It bemoans the <em>\\u201cprogress of socialism and anarchy\\u201d<\\/em> and <em>\\u201cthe endless evil to which they expose the nation.\\u201d<\\/em> He wrote that the Catholic associations and charities that were being suppressed were a <em>\\u201cbulwark against the subversive theories of socialism and anarchy\\u201d<\\/em> and that they would help the people of Italy by <em>\\u201cshielding them from the perils of socialism and anarchy.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Graves de communi re<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII opens this encyclical as follows:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The grave discussions on economical questions which for same time past have disturbed the peace of several countries of the world are growing in frequency and intensity to such a degree that the minds of thoughtful men are filled, and rightly so, with worry and alarm. These discussions take their rise in the bad philosophical and ethical teaching which is now widespread among the people. The changes, also, which the mechanical inventions of the age have introduced, the rapidity of communication between places, and the devices of every kind for diminishing labor and increasing gain, all add bitterness to the strife; and, lastly, matters have been brought to such a pass by the struggle between capital and labor, fomented as it is by professional agitators, that the countries where these disturbances most frequently occur find themselves confronted with ruin and disaster.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">That was written 1901, but in many respects it could just as easily have been written in 2025.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII wrote that he viewed it as his duty to <em>\\u201cwarn Catholics, in unmistakable language, how great the error was which was lurking in the utterances of socialism, and how great the danger was that threatened not only their temporal possessions, but also their morality and religion.\\u201d<\\/em> He said that was why he wrote Quod apolostici muneris almost immediately upon assuming the papacy, and again referenced Rerum novarum as a warning against socialism.<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">He then contrasted social democracy with Christian democracy. He saw social democracy as a stepping stone to socialism, because it is based on the same rejection of God and embrace of materialism. He wrote that <em>social democracy,&nbsp;with due consideration to the greater or less intemperance of its utterance, is carried to such an excess by many as to maintain that there is really nothing existing above the natural order of things, and that the acquirement and enjoyment of corporal and external goods constitute man\\u2019s happiness. It aims at putting all government in the hands of the masses, reducing all ranks to the same level, abolishing all distinction of class, and finally introducing community of goods. Hence, the right to own private property is to be abrogated, and whatever property a man possesses, or whatever means of livelihood he has, is to be common to all.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>\\u201cIt is clear, therefore, that there in nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy,\\u201d Leo XIII concluded. \\u201cThey differ from each other as much as the sect of socialism differs from the profession of Christianity.\\u201d<\\/em> He later contrasted <em>\\u201cChristian sentiments\\u201d<\\/em> with <em>\\u201cthe contamination of socialism which threatens them.\\u201d<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII again sounds prophetic about the evils of socialism that would be coming. Again, this was written in 1901, 16 years before the Bolshevik Revolution:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>The condition of things at present proclaims, and proclaims vehemently, that there is need for a union of brave minds with all the resources they can command. The harvest of misery is before our eyes, and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement. They have insidiously worked their way into the very heart of the community, and in the darkness of their secret gatherings, and in the open light of day, in their writings and their harangues, they are urging the masses onward to sedition; they fling aside religious discipline; they scorn duties; they clamor only for rights; they are working incessantly on the multitudes of the needy which daily grow greater, and which, because of their poverty are easily deluded and led into error. It is equally the concern of the State and of religion, and all good men should deem it a sacred duty to preserve and guard both in the honor which is their due.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>&nbsp;<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Fin dal principio<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">In the penultimate encyclical of his pontificate, Leo XIII wrote about the education of Catholic clergy. He stressed the same message about the dangers of socialism and its opposition to the Christian faith, with emphasis on how priests should be educated to support Christian democracy and stay far away from any socialist causes:<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><em>We repeat again, and still more warmly, that the clergy go to a Christian people tempted on every side, and with every kind of fallacious promise offered by Socialism to apostatize from the true faith. They must therefore submit all their actions to the authority of those whom the Holy Spirit has constituted Bishops, to rule the Church of God, without which would follow confusion and the most grave disorders to the detriment even of the cause they have at heart to defend and promote. It is for this end that we desire that the candidates for the priesthood, on the conclusion of their education in the seminary, should be suitably instructed in the pontifical documents relating to the social question, and the Christian democracy, abstaining, however, as we have already said, from taking any part whatever in the external movement.<\\/em><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\"><strong>Conclusion<\\/strong><\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp;<\\/div>\\r\\n<div dir=\\\"auto\\\" style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to God\\u2019s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God\\u2019s design for mankind. He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God\\u2019s authority. He used words like \\u201cevil,\\u201d \\u201cwicked,\\u201d \\u201cplague,\\u201d \\u201cmonstrous,\\u201d and \\u201chideous\\u201d to describe socialism, words he never used to reference markets or private property. On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God\\u2019s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined, by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism. If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII\\u2019s legacy in choosing his regnal name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the evils of socialism.<\\/div>\",\"state\":1,\"catid\":\"8\",\"created\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"created_by\":\"873\",\"created_by_alias\":\"\",\"modified\":\"2025-06-01 01:32:37\",\"modified_by\":\"873\",\"checked_out\":\"873\",\"checked_out_time\":\"2025-06-01 01:32:09\",\"publish_up\":\"2025-05-13 00:01:19\",\"publish_down\":\"0000-00-00 00:00:00\",\"images\":\"{\\\"image_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_intro_caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"float_fulltext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_alt\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_fulltext_caption\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"urls\":\"{\\\"urla\\\":false,\\\"urlatext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targeta\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlb\\\":false,\\\"urlbtext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetb\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urlc\\\":false,\\\"urlctext\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"targetc\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"attribs\":\"{\\\"article_layout\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_titles\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_tags\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_intro\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"info_block_show_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_parent_category\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_associations\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"link_author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_create_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_modify_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publish_date\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_item_navigation\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_icons\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_print_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_email_icon\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_vote\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_hits\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_noauth\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"urls_position\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"alternative_readmore\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"article_page_title\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_publishing_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_article_options\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_backend\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"show_urls_images_frontend\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"version\":6,\"ordering\":\"8\",\"metakey\":\"\",\"metadesc\":\"\",\"access\":\"1\",\"hits\":\"77\",\"metadata\":\"{\\\"robots\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"author\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"rights\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"xreference\\\":\\\"\\\"}\",\"featured\":\"1\",\"language\":\"*\",\"xreference\":\"\",\"note\":\"\"}',0),(6362,2161,1,'','2025-06-03 15:54:47',873,4443,'1dce6ad93d91603f7b7289b17b9fa8221c60616b','{\"id\":2161,\"asset_id\":2473,\"title\":\"Jun 3 -\\u00a0Week\\u00a022 -\\u00a0The Book of Revelation, Part 32 -\\u00a0Rick Joyner\",\"alias\":\"jun-3-week-22-the-book-of-revelation-part-32-rick-joyner\",\"introtext\":\"<h1>The Book of Revelation, Part 32 -&nbsp;Rick Joyner<\\/h1>\\r\\n<div class=\\\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\\\">\\r\\n<div class=\\\"field-items\\\">\\r\\n<div class=\\\"field-item even\\\">\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How did most of the church fall into such depravity that it would be called \\u201cthe Great Harlot\\u201d and \\u201cMystery Babylon\\u201d in the Revelation given to John? The institutional church through the Middle Ages descended into a deep darkness that is incomprehensible today. Its nature and practices could hardly have been more contrary to the teachings and instructions of Jesus or His true followers. This terrible fall and corruption of the church was predicted in the vision John was given, and it happened just as it was portrayed.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Why was this shown to John to give to the church? Because this \\u201cGreat Harlot,\\u201d also called, \\u201cMystery Babylon,\\u201d is what the church would become if it abandoned the place of the Holy Spirit and became dominated by carnal, fallen men. The \\u201cman of sin\\u201d that would take its place in the church was a personification of \\u201cthe sin of man.\\u201d This was the ultimate manifestation of the corruption and depravity of man by the fall, man\\u2019s determination to go his own way without God.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The \\u201cman of sin\\u201d is who we all would be if we had not been shown mercy, born again, and given a new nature to grow up into\\u2014Jesus Christ, who is the Righteousness of God. The \\u201cman of sin\\u201d was prophesied to take his seat in \\u201cthe temple of God,\\u201d the church, displaying himself as God. This was a personification of the sin of man ruling the church, which it did for a time.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Though what happened in the Middle Ages is far in the past, it is crucial for us to understand it to be free of the grip it still has on the church, which is contrary to Christ, as we will see. 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Courage can also&nbsp;cause the earth to quake and our enemies to flee.<br \\/><br \\/> We can see that in the story of Jonathan and his armor bearer in I Samuel 14. Jonathan had great courage to take on a battalion of 20 Philistines who were stationed on a mountain. Jonathan told his armor bearer, <em>\\u201c<strong>who knows but that God can save by many or by few!\\u201d<\\/strong><\\/em> It was probably the worst strategy ever! Even so, they climbed up the mountain to the awaiting army. It was crazy in every way.<br \\/><br \\/> They were at a distinct disadvantage regarding both position and numbers and yet,&nbsp;Jonathan had&nbsp;courage. His courage spread to his armor bearer---and they completely eliminated the enemy!<br \\/><br \\/> Scripture tells us that afterwards the Israelites began to shake (and take courage) and the Philistine armies began to shake, with fear. But it also says the earth began to shake.&nbsp;But more than that happened.<br \\/><br \\/> I Samuel 14:15, 20-22<br \\/><em>Then panic struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked, and <strong>panic spread from God\\u2026<\\/strong><\\/em><br \\/><br \\/><em>Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor. And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps to join the Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined the battle in close pursuit.<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/><em><strong>So the LORD saved Israel that day\\u2026<\\/strong><\\/em><\\/p>\\r\\n\",\"fulltext\":\"\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/mcusercontent.com\\/1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75\\/images\\/204df23b-31d2-224d-f77b-3efc01979442.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"563.9915161132812\\\" \\/><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>The Seed That Restores Destiny<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<p>June 4,&nbsp;2025<br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Courage<\\/strong><strong> is a powerful force!<\\/strong>&nbsp;It creates a reaction in people.&nbsp;It can bring people back to their destiny and restore vision. Courage can also&nbsp;cause the earth to quake and our enemies to flee.<br \\/> <br \\/> We can see that in the story of Jonathan and his armor bearer in I Samuel 14. Jonathan had great courage to take on a battalion of 20 Philistines who were stationed on a mountain. Jonathan told his armor bearer, <em>\\u201c<strong>who knows but that God can save by many or by few!\\u201d<\\/strong><\\/em> It was probably the worst strategy ever! Even so, they climbed up the mountain to the awaiting army. It was crazy in every way.<br \\/> <br \\/> They were at a distinct disadvantage regarding both position and numbers and yet,&nbsp;Jonathan had&nbsp;courage. His courage spread to his armor bearer---and they completely eliminated the enemy!<br \\/> <br \\/> Scripture tells us that afterwards the Israelites began to shake (and take courage) and the Philistine armies began to shake, with fear. But it also says the earth began to shake.&nbsp;But more than that happened.<br \\/> <br \\/> I Samuel 14:15, 20-22<br \\/> <em>Then panic struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked, and <strong>panic spread from God\\u2026<\\/strong><\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> <em>Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor. And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps to join the Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined the battle in close pursuit.<\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> <em><strong>So the LORD saved Israel that day\\u2026<\\/strong><\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> The Hebrews who had forgotten who they were, lost courage and actually gone over to the Philistine camps to live, came to their senses and rejoined the Israelites. Israelites who had been hiding in the caves and hill country\\u2014when they heard the Philistines were fleeing, rejoined the battle.<br \\/> <br \\/> Courage spread and birthed in them where they had lost courage.<br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Courage is a powerful force. <\\/strong>When we act with courage, it spreads and multiplies and others&nbsp;begin to take hold of it and begin to act with courage as well.<br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Courage is a big deal to God. <\\/strong>The opposite of courage is cowardice. Fear. In the book of Revelation, it says cowards are among those who will be tossed into the lake of fire. Those who lacked courage.<br \\/> <br \\/> <em>But <strong>the cowardly,<\\/strong> the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars\\u2014they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death (Rev 21:8 NIV).<\\/em><br \\/> <br \\/> It can be rather shocking to read that cowardice is ranked right up there with murderers, sexually immoral, and liars. But it is. That means in God\\u2019s world, it is a big, big deal.<br \\/> <br \\/> Cowardice spreads fear and doubt. While courage causes a chain reaction that multiples courage and victory.<br \\/> <br \\/> Which one will you allow in your heart today? Courage or cowardice?<\\/p>\\r\\n<ul>\\r\\n<li>Cowardice remains silent in the face of evil.<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>Cowardice refuses to stand up for what is right.<\\/li>\\r\\n<li>Cowardice allows fear of what others will think to be the driving factor rather than what God thinks.<\\/li>\\r\\n<\\/ul>\\r\\n<p><br \\/> May we be people of courage and join arms together to say no to fear and be people of courage in this hour where God is on the move and we are seeing mighty reformation and revival.<br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>Let\\u2019s align with Him, so we can walk in our destiny.<\\/strong><br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> &nbsp;In Christ,<br \\/> <br \\/> <em>Kevin &amp; Karen<\\/em><br \\/> &nbsp;<br \\/> &nbsp;PS -<strong>&nbsp;PRAISE THE LORD! Karen was elected to be Oklahoma Republican Party National Committee Woman. <\\/strong>As we shared last week,&nbsp;Karen&nbsp;felt led by the Lord to run for this position. It gives her considerable influence in the GOP party across our state AND&nbsp;nationwide as she would&nbsp;be one of two representatives of the Oklahoma GOP to the national GOP party.<strong>&nbsp;Thank you for your prayers.&nbsp;<\\/strong><br \\/> <br \\/> <strong>It was a very contentious, three week race, <\\/strong>and two of the ladies that lost have not stopped spreading chaos and division. <strong>Please continue to pray for Karen and all that God wants to do through this new position of influence. THANK YOU.<\\/strong><\\/p>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=34625ccd53&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">Click Here to Donate Today!<\\/a><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>&nbsp;<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td><strong>Stop the Deception<\\/strong><\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<\\/td>\\r\\n<\\/tr>\\r\\n<\\/tbody>\\r\\n<\\/table>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<table>\\r\\n<tbody>\\r\\n<tr>\\r\\n<td>\\r\\n<h1>&nbsp;<\\/h1>\\r\\n<strong>How to Stop the Global Spread of Rage, Deception and Insanity<\\/strong>\\r\\n<p>Did you know we can be infected by offense? 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as we pray each day at noon the <strong>\\u201cNoon Time prayer for America and Donald Trump.\\u201d<\\/strong> To download that prayer go to: <a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=b127795f42&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\"><\\/a><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/bit.ly\\/FreePrayerLink\\\">https:\\/\\/bit.ly\\/FreePrayerLink<\\/a>.<br \\/> <br \\/> 2) Sign up for our <strong><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/world.us8.list-manage.com\\/track\\/click?u=1868b62ba50dc78bf57227c75&amp;id=08820a975d&amp;e=e40310ac33\\\">City-by-City.org<\\/a> weekly prayer email<\\/strong> where together we pray over our cities and our nation.<br \\/> <br \\/> 3) <strong>For those in the Tulsa area,<\\/strong> join us every 2nd and 4th Monday evening for our <strong>AwakeOklahoma.com prayer for revival and our government leaders.<\\/strong> Email Karen at <a 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The gates of hell are access points the powers of hell come through to corrupt and destroy. Can we now say that His church has&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\\/em>been preyed upon through these gates? We can if we understand the true church of God and can distinguish it from the church mankind has built.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The church the Lord has been building throughout this age has withstood every onslaught from hell and remained a pure, chaste virgin waiting for the Lord\\u2019s return. It is \\u201ca little flock\\u201d and a \\u201chidden seed\\u201d that is unseen by most, but it continues to this day. But this church is not the one mankind recognizes. That church is recorded in man\\u2019s histories, which are the only histories most know.<\\/p>\\r\\n<p style=\\\"text-align: justify;\\\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; There are some histories that record the \\u201chidden seed\\u201d that kept itself from the corruptions of man\\u2019s church. 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