text: I am always amazed the terms "left" and "right" are used when talking about the environment or the Republican/Democrat divide. 
  
  Pope's John Paul II; Benedict XVI and Francis have all said that we cannot continue to abuse God's Creation.  JPII, although he did affirm the value of private property, also stated there is social mortgage and must be used for the common good.  Yet - thanks largely to the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus cherry picking even his teachings and therefore their distortion of OTC by what they finance ... most Catholics don't know this.  
  
  When Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson states the only choice in the 2016 US election was Trump and this is a "pro-life" moment because of anti-choice people appointed ... most Catholics, including bishops, have no idea of how central is social, inter-generational, and ecological justice is to our official teachings.
  
  So is "left" those concerned about the "common good" and "right" ? "profit over life" ?