Posted originally on Jun 16, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

Pope Leo XIV hosted Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the Vatican. The head of a Catholic nation, Milei, clashed with former Pope Francis on social reforms, with Milei publicly bashing the pope and the Vatican. This did not sit well with the people of Argentina, and despite being the first Argentine pope, Pope Francis never returned to his homeland during his 12-year papacy.

Pope Leo XIV announced that he plans to visit Argentina in the near future. President Milei presented the pope with two books before their departure: “The Fatal Conceit” by Friedrich Hayek and a Spanish book by Libertarian economist Jesus Huerta de Soto. The latter advocates for free markets, private ownership, and voluntary cooperation. The author emphasizes non-coercive methods for giving compared to state interventions. Friedrich Hayek believes that society cannot be controlled through centralized planning. Fatal conceit is the belief that reason alone can control a society, yet no human has the ability to control society or the economy.

The Catholic Church has never embraced the concept of socialism. The pope’s namesake, Leo XIII’s 1891 book Rerum Novarum, condemned centralized control while supporting worker rights. The poor are to be protected and served from one’s own goodwill. The church believes that denying people the right to own private property threatens the family unit.

There is a reason that the far left hates Christianity and Catholicism. Joe Biden went as far as to order the FBI to spy on Catholics during his regime. Marxist philosophy is anti-Christian and anti-family. Friedrich Engels, a pioneer of Marxism, argued that the nuclear family was merely a “unit of consumption.” He advocated polygamous group marriage and the abolishment of private property and generational wealth.

Hillary Clinton recently admitted that she fears a return to the nuclear family. “It’s all in there,” Clinton said of the debunked project 2025, “The return to the nuclear family, the return to being a Christian nation, return to producing a lot of children, which is sort of odd since the people who produce a lot of children are immigrants.”

Father Mike, a popular online sensation for the younger generation of Catholics, has come out to explain that the Catholic Church does NOT support socialism. He acknowledged that both Christians and Socialists believed in giving to the poor, however, there is a key difference. “’The Christian says ‘Where can I give my stuff to help the people in needs?’ And the socialist says, ‘Where can I take someone else’s stuff and help the people in need?’”

“One is charity and one if theft,” the priest explained, calling socialism “genuinely evil.”

The Vatican has famously clashed with governments over its stance on immigration, taking the “Welcome the stranger” stance. The Catechism stated that developed nations are “obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.”

Yet, the church does not believe that governments should usurp all power, as we see in socialism and communism. Why does it matter what the Vatican believes? Well, the Catholic Church is one of the most powerful and influential institutions in the world, with over 1.4 billion followers across every continent. The pope is not only a spiritual leader but a global diplomat whom heads of state treat with respect (besides Milei regarding the late Pope Francis). It is no coincidence that the church is asking influencers like Father Mike to expose the cruelties of socialism at this particular moment.

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