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We’re heading into an election year, and if you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ve no doubt been hearing a word that’s somewhat surprising.That word is socialism, and it’s being endorsed by leading American politicians.This is surprising because, just a few years ago: The Berlin Wall fellThe Warsaw Pact disintegratedThe Soviet Union ceased to existFreedom came to millions of people who hadn’t experienced it in a generationIt seemed like conclusive proof that socialist systems—ones wh …

In 2019, 43 percent of Americans consider socialism to be a “good thing” and millennials are some of its strongest supporters.Magazines such as Teen Vogue even run articles like “Everything You Should Know About Karl Marx” and “What ‘Capitalism’ Is and How It Affects People,” which says that millennials “expect a grand societal shift toward socialism” to counteract a “dystopian Mad Max nightmare” in which “rich plutocrats own everything.” Another poll found that half of young people say they wo …

In the middle of the third century, the Roman emperor Valerian launched a fierce persecution against the Church that resulted in the martyrdom of Pope Saint Sixtus II along with seven deacons. St. Ambrose tells us that when the Roman authorities demanded that one of the deacons, named Lawrence, hand over “the treasures of the Church,” he agreed. According to Ambrose, “On the following day he brought the poor together. When asked where the treasures were which he had promised, he pointed to the p …