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Entry: The Impresario Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_impresario#18496 Post contents: I don't know for a fact (because I've never been inside of WFB mind), but I feel one of the strongest differences of opinion between WFB and the Encyclical "Mater et Magistra" was: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_15051961_mater_en.html <<34)...no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate Socialism. The reason is that Socialism is founded on a doctrine of human society which is bounded by time and takes no account of any objective other than that of material well-being.>> This is in direct opposition to WFB's insistence upon a strong State that stood in opposition to communism, by embracing socialism itself; fighting "fire" with "fire". Instead of using the water provided by an organic society, led by the Church and it's Teachings (magistra), WFB took the position, presumably, that the water was best left alone to be used to purify society only after the fires of Soviet communism were put out by the fires of American communism (the state-corportist system under which we have lived permanently since the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank). What we have ended up with is a landscape increasingly desolated by this "fire fight", and our precious water being boiled and lost - that is, until it comes back to us in a rain storm. The sensible thing to have done this whole time was to have used the purifying waters of the Church to extinguish the fires of socialism. Sent at: 2008 11 22