Decree against communism

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I think most American Priests have been given authority by their Bishops to lift excommunications. You’d have to talk to your Priest to see if that’s something within his authority or not. If not, you may need to discuss with the local Bishop. I do not think (at least in America) that you have to appeal all the way up to the Holy See. That’d be difficult for most people in the entire world.
 
Why would it be a mortal sin for a Catholic to read a book about communism? How do people learn what they are about if you can’t read about them.
I would like someone to show me a Church document which forbids the reading of such a book and states it is a mortal sin with the penalty of excommunication.
Please note the 1983 code of canon law superseded the 1917 one so if anyone is going to refer to canon law please use the one which is in force (1983).
 
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Just from my POV, but a system that promotes feeling entitled to and coveting the possessions of the rich doesn’t appear very noble. And that’s exactly what Communism does. The think tanks promote it through class warfare, and those on the ground love hearing how the fact that they aren’t bathed in riches isn’t their fault. And it’s not just that “they” have what you don’t, but they STOLE it from you. What a message. The strategy has shifted though. Race is the new “class”, even though nearly all racial decrees by minorities and farcical elite white millionaires are just repackaged class issues. Capitalism doesn’t promote loathing those who aren’t like you. It might promote hoarding and greed at times, but its freedoms don’t promote contempt for other people, and needing to “take them down” as communism does. However, the whole concept of opposing a successful capitalist system with a coordinated, systematic strategy to infiltrate and destabilize it is well documented. The fathers of communism have never attempted to hide it, only those in power who support it have… such as media, academica, etc.
 
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Well its actually a book about communism written by a communist (Lenin) i don’t know if that makes a diffrence and the decree against communism is a document that forbids it but some things seems to be based on the 1917 code so i don’t know what of the document still counts and what not i find it pretty unclair to be honest
 
I agree that communism is evil but the church condemd capitalism as well i personally al for national syndicalism or corporatism
 
Venezuela, the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia…Communism has never succeeded, and it has always failed.

Communism increases poverty, and only those connected to the government do well economically.

Communism suppresses freedom, the family, and religion.
 

No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist (Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno, 120).
The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with “communism” or “socialism” (Catechism, 2425).
Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum explicitly rejects several main tenants of socialism.
Socialism severely curtails rights to private property. The Church, on the other hand, upholds the individual’s right to private property (Catechism, 2401).
 
http://www.vatican.va/content/pius-.../hf_p-xi_enc_19370319_divini-redemptoris.html
In the face of such a threat, the Catholic Church could not and does not remain silent. This Apostolic See, above all, has not refrained from raising its voice, for it knows that its proper and social mission is to defend truth, justice and all those eternal values which Communism ignores or attacks. Ever since the days when groups of “intellectuals” were formed in an arrogant attempt to free civilization from the bonds of morality and religion, Our Predecessors overtly and explicitly drew the attention of the world to the consequences of the dechristianization of human society. With reference to Communism, Our Venerable Predecessor, Pius IX, of holy memory, as early as 1846 pronounced a solemn condemnation, which he confirmed in the words of the Syllabus directed against "that infamous doctrine of so-called Communism which is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself, and if once adopted would utterly destroy the rights, property and possessions of all men, and even society itself."
 
I agree you cant be a socialist in the marxist sence and a good catholic at the same time i’m not a socialist or communist i use the term national syndicalist to describe my self
 
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