How did “the new things” of socialism, modernism, and esotericism (“New Age”) manage to become part and parcel of the political and economic thought of so many people? After all, as we define it (abolition of private property in capital), socialism is not particularly social, modernism (not modernity, but a philosophical/theological shift from the human person to the abstraction of humanity) is not really all that modern, and esotericism or the New Age is not all that new.
In our opinion, as you will see from today’s video podcast, the situation is due to the influence of one man, Monsignor John Augustine Ryan of the Catholic University of America:
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5. Catholic Doctrine v. the New Things
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And, in case you missed one of the exciting past episodes, here they are:
Communism, Part IV: Modernism Madness
Communism, Part III: Putting on the Socialist Spin
Communism, Part II: The Road to Rerum Novarum
Communism, Part I: The Groundwork
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