Can A Catholic Be A Socialist? With Catherine R. Pakaluk

Special Guest Catherine Pakaluk 

Author of ‘Can A Catholic Be A Socialist’? co-author Trent Horn

Follow her on Twitter @CRPakaluk

• The average wage – The Church says to apply prudence. 
• We don’t give everything away so the business shuts down but you pay them an adequate wage.
• If you pay people too much we all know it causes unemployment.
• It is dictated by the people and their basic needs and also the businesses.
• The most common misconception with Millennials and Socialism is – 
• It is our obligation to teach them what Socialism truly is.
• When the state controls the means of production – Venezuela (SOCIALISM)
• Patricia Rucker – State Senator from West Virginia 
• Rerum Novarum read it here. 
• Casti Connubii read it here.
• Nazi Germany – 
• We put it in there b/c so many people ask us about it.
• They love the Church and they want to figure this out.
• DISTRIBUTISM – the Church does leave this up to us I believe.
• I adore Chesterton so I take this pretty seriously b/c he was just such a great thinker.
• It isn’t Magisterial Catholic doctrine and we must be open about that.
• The problem I have with it is the name to begin with.
• You think of redistribution when you mention it to the average American.
• I have several more books and I write off and on which is hard to do with the 8 kiddos but I am always writing.
• Congratulations on your 1st book! – FIRST BOOK ALERT