What Is Socialism?
This is the main goal socialism promises for all citizens
What is equality?
This commandment from Exodus protects a person's right to own things.
You shall not steal
This is the name of the book that contains the official teachings of the Catholic Church
What is the Catechism of the Catholic Church?)
This is the name of the website where all official Church documents can be found.
What is vatican.va?
This phrase means every person is made in the image of God and deserves to be treated with respect.
What is human dignity?
Socialism believes the government should own or control this instead of private citizens
Socialism believes the government should own or control this instead of private citizens
this book of the Bible shows early Christians sharing their belongings with each other.
What is Acts
CCC paragraph 2403 says this is a natural right given by God to every person.
What is private property?
This pope wrote the Church's first major document on economics in 1891.
Who is Pope Leo XIII?
This moral principle says Catholics are responsible for taking care of one another.
(What is solidarity?)
This is the most extreme form of socialism, seen in the Soviet Union.
What is communism?)
In Luke 12:15, Jesus warns his followers against this sin.
GREED
CCC 2425 says the Church has rejected socialism because it is linked to these two words.
What is totalitarian and atheistic?
Rerum Novarum defended the rights of this group of people against unfair treatment by the wealthy
Who are workers / the poor?
The Church says that when the government forces people to give, it removes this from the act of charity.
(What is free will / personal choice?)
his German philosopher wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Who is Karl Marx?
The key difference between the early Christians sharing and socialism is that the Christians did this freely.
What is voluntary / out of love?
According to CCC 2424, any system that puts the group above this is against human dignity.
What are individual rights?
This 1931 document said no one can be a good Catholic and a true socialist at the same time.
What is Quadragesimo Anno?
This term describes a society organized so that every single person has the chance to live a good life.
(What is the common good?)
This South American country adopted socialism in the 2000s and collapsed into poverty and food shortages.
What is Venezuela?
This verse from Matthew summarizes the Catholic view that no economic system should come before God.
What is Matthew 6:33?)
According to CCC 2403, owning property also comes with this responsibility toward others
What is serving the common good?
This principle introduced by Pope Pius XI says the government should not do what families and communities can handle themselves
What is subsidiarity?
(What is the Catholic third way?)