text: Ironically, the more the Catholic Church embraces socialism the more rapidly the Church accelerates its demise. Europe anyone. The Church stood idly by during the adoption of the Affordable Care Act and then found itself defending "its" religious rights. As for the "economy" killing people, the Church has made common cause with the sanctuary movement which coupled with open borders has fed millions of low skilled laborers into the American economy making it more difficult for the weakest Americans to find employment. Add, hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens enabled entry into the US by the same policies and the victims of homicide, sexual assault, etc in this country climb to hundreds of thousands (2011 GAO Report on Criminal Alien Statistics). Compassion without reason is no virtue.