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The best example of this\u00a0is his attack on \u201csocialism\u201d \u2013 see the youtube video linked here<\/a>\u00a0(no, I am not putting this on the front page of Vox Nova<\/em>, go click on it yourself if interested!) I admit, I didn\u2019t get through the 27 minutes. I couldn\u2019t stomach it. But here\u2019s the gist of it \u2013 Corapi\u00a0is attacking the great evil of socialism, with the implicit implication that this is an issue in American political discourse right now. He spends a lot of time quoting Rerum\u00a0Novarum\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 out of context. I never hear him explaining that Leo XIII, and all popes after him, condemned American-style laissez-faire liberalism equally with socialism (Pius XI\u2019s \u201ctwin rocks of shipwreck\u201d). Of course, Corapi is really winking at the extreme right, which believes that Obama is some kind of socialist. This is the point of his video. I\u2019m sorry, but anyone who thinks that Obama, who is more to the right that the average European social democrat, is somehow a radical socialist simply does not deserve to be taken seriously, and definitely does not understand Catholic social teaching.<\/p>\n

Socialism is about the collective ownership of the means of production, not the welfare state that Corapi\u00a0derides on individualist grounds. It is certainly true that an overly-centralized\u00a0welfare state could harm human dignity and violate subsidiarity. But this argument seems far too subtle for Corapi. If he wants to see a Catholic example of a welfare state, one that twins both solidarity and subsidiarity, there are plenty of examples<\/a>. Germany is one, with a model supported strongly by Cardinal Marx of Munich. Basically, the welfare system funded by the state, but managed by subsidiary mediating institutions in a fully autonomous manner. And this system spends far more on social spending than the United States, and has far lower poverty and inequality, as well as universal healthcare. Corapi cannot escape the American individualist mentality, with is Calvinist and classical liberal undertones. He forgets about the wider, vibrant, Catholic world out there.<\/p>\n

I gave up in the middle of the video. At one point, Corapi\u00a0started equating gun control with tyranny. After all, Hitler took away people\u2019s guns! In a culture of such violence and death caused by firearms, how could\u00a0a Catholic priest make such a demonic argument? I never paid any attention to Corapi\u00a0before. But when I did, I found him worse than I had possibly imagined. Shame on EWTN\u00a0for giving him a soapbox (even if he is the company of dissenting torture-supporters like Arroyo and Sirico).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"