Socialism promotes envy between classes! “Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s goods.” The transfer of property to community property is against nature and justice. Socialism hurts the working man first and foremost! A person has the right to improve his social condition through labor. His social condition should not be taken away from him. Socialism perceives children belong to the State. Chiefly, and that the State has the prior right over the father of the child with regards to guardianship, education and labor. This the Pope condemns! Socialism must be utterly rejected! Socialism leads to a “condition of misery and degradation.” The Pope recognizes that not every human has equal aptitude in their life for wage earning. Labor is good and not evil. Socialism wrongly presumes that work is always an exploitation of one class over another class. Those who have private property should share it with those in need. Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) Comment: If Europe would have heeded this Pope’s advice on socialism Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler would have never happened along with WWII and 70 million dead! But history has shown us that man rejects God’s Word our Holy Scriptures and the atheistic socialism marches on into the next generation! Our American liberal left has been promoting the same disaster ignoring the history of socialism! We can only have a better new year by not repeating the mistakes of history but promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com