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To: Neocon who wrote (145823)	9/16/2004 6:06:10 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

communism - classless political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all the members of a community Microsoft® Encarta® Reference Library 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. You'll have a difficult time getting the Church to claim that there are classes within the Church itself or for that matter that it is even hierarchical. The Church recently stated the position in Boston that the Church is not hierarchical. In spite of what you think you see. There is an allocation [or allowance] to those of the Church based on their position. A nun need not "purchase" a robe to say mass, while a priest does. The particular text that you cite of Leo XIII does not address the Church itself but rather the people that are outside of the immediate structure of the Church. But ... "It is lawful," says St. Thomas Aquinas, "for a man to hold private property; and it is also necessary for the carrying on of human existence.''[11] But if the question be asked: How must one's possessions be used?—the Church replies without hesitation in he words of the same holy Doctor: "Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.... To cite the wise words of St. Thomas Aquinas: "As the part and the whole are in a certain sense identical, so that which belongs to the whole in a sense belongs to the part. In other words, you have possessions, but they belong to all. What belongs to all, belongs to each. jttmab