Elaine, your citations a fabulous example of the straw man fallacy. Father George Searle defines socialism (1) as rejecting any morality beyond the popular will, and (2) rejecting private property as intrinsically evil, and then rejects this two-headed straw man as non-Catholic. There are many different ways in which avowed socialists define themselves, and none of these fit Searle's definition. I suggest Searle is indeed harping back to the cold war duality I referenced in my last post.

I should have added there that Capitalism and Socialism, understood as economic models (contrary to Searle) are really a continuum; and critically, one must distinguish between socialism as a means of production (which can then towards limiting property rights) and socialism as equitable distribution of wealth, as social justice.

I repeat Catholic social teaching is highly socialistic in this later sense. 

Enough, my dear Elaine. I am doing all the heavy lifting, and you are throwing verbal pebbles.