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A The American Catholic Double-hitter.\u00a0Donald McClarey looks at it from the Church\u2019s perspective<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s become fashionable in some Catholic corners to flirt with Marxism, embrace Socialism, or even mitigate the track record of Communism. \u00a0Fun thing I\u2019ve learned from my wife\u2019e Orthodox church: For many who hail from the former Soviet Bloc, trying in any way to downplay the negatives of Communism is received as well as Jews receive people saying \u2018Sure, the Nazis weren\u2019t\u00a0necessarily good, but\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

Given the uptick in people beginning to cast a longing eye toward repairing that iron curtain, it might be time for Pope Francis to turn away from his focus on the global threat of Libertarianism<\/a>, and remind us that there are other approaches to\u00a0living that have produced\u00a0their share of negatives.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"