The National Catholic Register portal (September 18, 2026) reports on the surging influence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), citing the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City and the rising presidential prospects of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alongside a Cato Institute study claiming 62% of young Americans view socialism favorably. The article contrasts the historical papal condemnations of socialism — Leo XIII, Pius XI, John XXIII, and the *Catechism of the Catholic Church* — with the opinions of conciliar “theologians” David Cloutier, Daniel Mahoney, David Deavel, Michael Naughton, and “Bishop” Robert Barron, who debate whether the DSA’s platform constitutes the “socialism” condemned by the Magisterium or merely a benign “social democracy.” Cloutier argues the DSA preserves “personal property” and aligns with European social democracy, while Mahoney and Deavel warn of its communist endgame. The article notes the DSA’s 2026 platform explicitly endorses abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and “queer liberation,” yet concludes with a call for Catholics to “rebuild traditional institutions” and practice personal charity rather than confront the socialist surge directly. This equivocation exposes the neo-church’s capitulation to the spirit of the age: it refuses to apply the integral Social Kingship of Christ to the political order, preferring dialogue with demons to the unambiguous condemnation of error.
The Conciliar Sect’s Theological Bankruptcy: Relativizing the Condemnation of Socialism
The cited article functions as a case study in the hermeneutic of rupture that defines the conciliar sect. It presents the unequivocal condemnations of socialism by Leo XIII (Rerum Novarum, 1891), Pius XI (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931), and the Catechism (CCC 2425) — which brands socialism “totalitarian and atheistic” — only to immediately undermine them through the mouths of “theologians” who parse the distinction between “private property” and “personal property” with Jesuitical casuistry.
David Cloutier of the University of Notre Dame asserts:
“Socialism as understood in a strictly Marxist sense involves the abolition of all private property and the ownership of everything by the state… What [the democratic socialists] mean by socialism is something different from what the Church has condemned.”
This is a diabolical equivocation. Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno (n. 120) explicitly condemned the very distinction Cloutier employs: “No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.” The Pope taught that socialism’s fundamental error is “placing society over and above the person” — a metaphysical inversion that Cloutier’s “personal property” distinction does not remedy but rather conceals. The DSA’s own platform, admitting the goal is “communism” (per David Jenkins), confirms the continuity of the revolutionary aim. The conciliar “theologian” acts as a sophist, not a doctor of the Church, blurring the limes (boundary) between truth and error that the Magisterium drew with absolute clarity.
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Social Democracy” as the Trojan Horse of Communism
The article’s rhetoric reveals the novus ordo mentality: an obsession with labels, “nuance,” and “substance over surface-level labels,” while ignoring the forma substantialis of the ideology. The term “democratic socialism” is a semantic weapon designed to sanitize the dictatorship of the proletariat for Western consumption. As the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar sect embodies this condemned proposition. Cloutier’s claim that the DSA is “very similar to the social democratic movement of Europe” ignores that European social democracy is merely the via media to the same materialist end — the civitas terrena divorced from the civitas Dei.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) diagnosed the root: “The plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The DSA is not a mere policy proposal; it is a religio — a counter-church demanding total allegiance. The article’s refusal to name this religious dimension, treating socialism as a technocratic “economic system,” is practical atheism.
The Theological Void: Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
Nowhere in the article — neither in the “historical condemnations” cited nor in the “theologians’ analyses” — is the Social Kingship of Christ invoked. This omission is the gravest indictment. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas). He taught:
“If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority…”
The conciliar “theologians” propose charity and institution-building as alternatives to socialism — a Pelagian illusion. Without the reign of Christ over the State, over laws, over education, over the economy, all “institutions” are built on sand. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The neo-church lives this error; its “theologians” cannot conceive of a politics subordinate to the lex divina.
“Bishop” Barron’s Sentimental Anti-Communism: A Counterfeit Witness
“Bishop” Robert Barron is cited criticizing Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism” by citing the “deaths of at least one hundred million people.” This is humanitarian moralism, not Catholic theology. Barron condemns the effects (body count) but not the cause (rebellion against God’s Kingship). He speaks the language of the rights of man, not the rights of God. Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). Barron’s tweet is a fuga in mundum — a flight into worldly argumentation that concedes the naturalist premise: that politics is about “what works” rather than “what is owed to God.” His “critique” is compatible with liberal democracy; it threatens the socialist not with anathema sit but with historical statistics.
The DSA’s Platform: The Unmasking of the Antichrist’s Program
The article admits the DSA’s 2026 platform (“Workers Deserve More”) supports “abortion on demand, the redefinition of marriage, and ‘queer liberation'”. This is not an “economic platform”; it is a litany of satanic inversions. It attacks the three pillars of the ordo naturalis: life (abortion), family (sodomitical “marriage”), and sexual identity (“queer liberation”). The conciliar “theologians” treat these as unfortunate “add-ons” to an otherwise debatable economic program. Michael Naughton says reconciling DSA membership with Catholic faith would be “really hard, just like… the Democratic Party.” “Really hard” is the language of compromise, not the language of the martyr. The true Church teaches: “The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies… associated with ‘communism’ or ‘socialism'” (CCC 2425, echoing Pius XI). There is no “reconfiguring” the platform of the DSA; there is only anathematizing it.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as the Handmaid of the Revolution
The article’s conclusion — “Catholics should focus on rebuilding traditional institutions to give younger generations a path forward” (Naughton) and “Real charity and help of others is far superior” (Deavel) — reveals the operative ecclesiology of the neo-church: a humanitarian NGO. It accepts the status quo of the Masonic republic (the USA) and seeks only to mitigate its evils through “civil society.” This is the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae, 1899): the delusion that the Church can accommodate herself to modern liberties.
The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes the Masonic strategy: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The conciliar sect’s refusal to condemn the DSA by name — Cloutier: “The Church, particularly the bishops, typically avoid endorsing or condemning particular political parties or movements” — is the modus operandi of the ecumenical reinterpretation. It is the silentium pastorum foretold by St. Pius X: “They aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption” (Lamentabili sane exitu, Intro).
The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes the principle: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (Bellarmine). The “bishops” and “theologians” quoted in this article are functionaries of a paramasonic structure that has defected from the Faith. Their “debate” is a theatrum staged for the faithful to legitimize the socialist advance.
The Only Remedy: Instaurare Omnia in Christo
The integral Catholic response to the socialist surge is not “dialogue,” “nuance,” or “rebuilding institutions” within the Masonic order. It is the integral proclamation of the Social Kingship of Christ. As Pius XI commanded in Quas Primas:
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
The DSA, the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the US Constitution itself — all are null and void insofar as they deny Christus Rex. The “Catholic” who votes, campaigns, or dialogues within this system without demanding the Confessional State is a traitor to his Baptism.
The article from the National Catholic Register is not a “news analysis”; it is a bulletin of the resistance against the Kingship of Christ. It proves that the conciliar sect is the ecclesia maligna, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. The true Church — the Ecclesia militans of Tradition — knows only one platform: Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Socialism Is Surging in America. What Does the Catholic Church Say? (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.09.2026