It was probably 20 years ago that I first encountered this statement by Pope Pius XI, on the masthead of The Wanderer:
No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist. (Quad. Anno, 1931)
It wasn't until I'd gotten a couple of chapters into the new book above that I really understood why Pius was so adamant about it. Every Catholic needs to know about the ugly depths where Progressivism -- the current fashionable name for American socialism -- came from, and why its claims are ultimately so hostile to Christianity. Because the confusion that Pius was trying to dispel 75 years ago is very much with us Catholics again in this election season.
That "seamless garment" line we've been fed by Catholic libs for decades? Made of the same material as a certain emperor's new clothes.
