text: To be called a Socialist by a US citizen is an honor.  It means that such person is one who takes the Gospel (not Marx!) seriously.  The Social Teaching of the Church, which, due to over-emphasis on Canon Law and Doctrine in the past three decades, has been gravely neglected among certain hierarchs on these shores.  Remember the USCCB's letter on Social Justice, "Economic Justice for All" from 1986, and "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response", from May 1, 1983 (Feast of St. Joseph The Worker and International Labor Day)? Massimo Faggioli has written an astute piece in November 2016: "The Church in the Trump Era: Catholicism or Americanism?" - see: https://international.la-croix.com/news/the-church-in-the-trump-era-catholicism-or-americanism/4200.  Catholic Americanism is, I think, closely related to what John Pavlovitz calls "Americhristianity", from which Christians must be freed: http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/11/17/freeing-christians-from-americhristianity/.