Catholic doctrine has always been a via media between capitalism and socialism, and I can imagine that Americans would call that 'socialism'. See e.g. Rerum novarum. Both unbridled capitalism and communism/socialism are opposed by the Catholic Church, and rightly so.
The problem with the current pope is not "socialism" but the other stupid things, the retreat on the things which the Catholic Church unquestionably got right.
I mean, is the current pope spreading catholic doctrine?
Catholic doctrine has always been a via media between capitalism and socialism, and I can imagine that Americans would call that 'socialism'. See e.g. Rerum novarum. Both unbridled capitalism and communism/socialism are opposed by the Catholic Church, and rightly so.
The problem with the current pope is not "socialism" but the other stupid things, the retreat on the things which the Catholic Church unquestionably got right.
The irony is that distributism could most accurately be described as third position.