The ideology of communism as proposed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles promote an aggressively atheistic approach in the social structure of a population. This is due to the concept of a materialism which is heavily imbued in the doctrine of communism. This social ideology also enforces the obliteration of individual rights, for the benefit of the community. Communism does not recognize the individual as significant in comparison to the community and this is against the Catholic social stance that each individual lives a sacred existence alongside the community. Communism's materialistic and atheistic approach to existence is in grave conflict with the Catholic Church.
The Church feared the state-imposed Atheism of the Communist doctrine.
Rosanna Mulazzi Giammanco has written: 'The Catholic-Communist dialogue in Italy' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Church history, Communism and Christianity, History
The Ukrainian Catholic Church is in union with the Holy Father and the Roman Catholic Church, so there should be no problem at all with a child baptized in that rite of the Church attending a Roman Catholic school.
Lewis Watt has written: 'Communism and religion' -- subject(s): Communism and religion 'A handbook to Rerum novarum' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII), Christian sociology, Christianity, Church and social problems, Doctrines, Labor, Religious aspects of Labor, Social ethics
Alberto Galter has written: 'The red book of the persecuted church' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Communism and religion, History, Persecution
In spite of the far left tendencies of several Catholic organisations (such as Sinn Fein, the Catholic Worker Movement, etc.), the Catholic church has long feared the dominance of Soviet style Communism, which pushed for an atheistic state.
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A. Ancel has written: 'Catholiques et communistes' -- subject(s): Communism and religion, Socialism and Christianity, Catholic Church
Mary Victoria has written: 'Nun in Red China' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Communism, Missions
Svizzero. has written: 'La Pira et la via cattolica al comunismo' -- subject(s): Communism and Christianity, Catholic Church, Church history
Gustav Gundlach has written: 'Sguardi cattolici, su questioni marxiste' -- subject(s): Communism and religion, Catholic Church, Church and social problems
There is a Lutheran Church and a Catholic Church but no Lutheran Catholic Church.