1. Socialism promotes envy between classes. “Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s goods.” 2. The transfer of private property to community property is against nature and justice. 3. Socialism hurts the working man first and foremost. 4. A person has the right to improve his social condition through labor. His social condition should not be taken away from him. 5 . Socialism perceives children belonging to the State chiefly, and thus the State has a prior right over the father of the child with regard to guardianship, education and labor. This the Pope condemns. 6. Socialism must be utterly rejected. 7. Socialism leads to “a condition of misery and degradation.” 8. The Pope recognizes that not every human has equal aptitude in this life for wage earning. 9. Labor is good and not evil. Socialism wrongly presumes that work is always an exploitation of one class serving another. 10. Those who have acquired private property should share those goods with those who are in need. This is a Christ principal. Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903)