ANTI-GOD PROPAGANDA
WARNING TO CATHOLICS ARCHBISHOP ATTACKS SOCIALISM SYDNEY, Oct. 13. A strong attack on Socialism, was made by Coadjutor Archbishop Sheehan in opening the annual conference of the 11.A.C.8. Society to-day. Archbishop Sheehan said the term socialisation implied anti-God campaign aiul anti-God propaganda—a system that placed economics on a level above religion. Socialism, even when not openly anti-God, was so tainted with paganism as to be irreconcilable with Christianity. The Pope’s ideal of a social system was capitalistic, as far as it advocated private ownership, widely diffused. It was socialistic as far as it advocated general control by the State of all industry, not necessarily political ownership of certain services, State control of credit and banking, and the extinction of the financial power of the money lords. No Catholic could be a Socialist in the sense in which His Holiness understood that term. It seemed to him that to-day the world was in such a mess that Labor and its opponents might be well advised to scrap their game of polities and write a program me in common.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17917, 22 October 1932, Page 7
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