Church teaching on “The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods”

Are we attempting to change the catechism again?

A Cardinal said the following at a Labor Day weekend Mass:

 “No one intrinsically owns anything, all things that come as a gift from God belong to all of us…everyone has a right to part of the world’s bounty…when we work, we are co-creators with God.” “The labor market is going to dramatically change in the next 20 years. Certain sectors will be wiped out by AI. Millions of workers who have jobs now, will not have those jobs 10 years from now.”

Here is what the Catechism has to say about private property as well as the universal destination of all goods:

PART THREE SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF ARTICLE 7 THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT 

I. THE UNIVERSAL DESTINATION AND THE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF GOODS

2402 In the beginning God entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind to take care of them, master them by labor, and enjoy their fruits.186 The goods of creation are destined for the whole human race. However, the earth is divided up among men to assure the security of their lives, endangered by poverty and threatened by violence. the appropriation of property is legitimate for guaranteeing the freedom and dignity of persons and for helping each of them to meet his basic needs and the needs of those in his charge. It should allow for a natural solidarity to develop between men.

2403 The right to private property, acquired by work or received from others by inheritance or gift, does not do away with the original gift of the earth to the whole of mankind. the universal destination of goods remains primordial, even if the promotion of the common good requires respect for the right to private property and its exercise.

2404 "In his use of things man should regard the external goods he legitimately owns not merely as exclusive to himself but common to others also, in the sense that they can benefit others as well as himself."187 The ownership of any property makes its holder a steward of Providence, with the task of making it fruitful and communicating its benefits to others, first of all his family.

2405 Goods of production - material or immaterial - such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the greatest number. Those who hold goods for use and consumption should use them with moderation, reserving the better part for guests, for the sick and the poor.

2406 Political authority has the right and duty to regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to ownership for the sake of the common good.188

Fauci hearing should remind Catholics how US bishops betrayed them during COVID-19

 If Dr. Fauci committed crimes against humanity, then those clergy who collaborated with him are likewise guilty, especially of spiritual crimes against faithful Catholics.

Riaan Van Zyl

2026

The recent Senate hearing of Dr. Anthony Fauci turned into a farce when Republican Senator Rand Paul’s and others’ attempts to get answers on the government’s handling of COVID-19 were met with Fauci invoking his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times.

Fauci, the former director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), appeared before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week more than six years after the pandemic began.

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Many Americans see Fauci as a villain and as the principal instigator and architect of tyrannical measures, dubious medical treatments, and draconian policies endorsed by the Trump administration. Some commentators have alleged that Fauci got filthy rich through a variety of immoral and unethical practices and engagements during this time.

Contempt of Congress

During the hearing, Fauci refused to answer questions about the origins of the coronavirus and other inquiries on pandemic restrictions, vaccine policies, and internal government communications.  

Senator Paul argued that repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment raised legitimate questions about accountability. Republicans on the committee have since voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, which is a federal misdemeanor.

Paul also maintained that the American public deserves direct answers about decisions that affected millions of lives with business closures, education loss, mental health issues, the curtailing of civil liberties, and social upheaval.

US bishops were complicit

Equally important for faithful Catholics is that they cannot blame Fauci or the Trump administration alone. They mustn’t forget the despicable role the US Conference of Catholic Bishops played in the COVID-19 nightmare and how they forsook the spiritual well-being of the millions of souls supposedly under their care.  

Church leaders cooperated with public health authorities’ radical policies and even became cheerleaders for the jab, which Francis said was an “act of love” to receive. Prelates giddily put the sacraments on hold while liquor stores, casinos, and restaurants stayed open, leaving the faithful exposed to all sorts of wickedness and temptations.

One of the most shameful and scandalous directives in the history of the Church occurred when every diocese in the country suspended public Masses in March 2020.

More: https://integritymagazine.org/2026/08/06/fauci-hearing-should-remind-catholics-how-us-bishops-betrayed-them-during-covid-19/

22 Previously Unpublished Letters Add to Rupnik Abuse Case Allegations

Twenty-two previously undisclosed letters by members of the former Loyola Community in Slovenia have been included in the Vatican's ongoing canonical criminal trial, according to OSVNews.com (August 6).

The letters were written during Easter 2000 after the community's superior, Sister Ivanka Hosta, asked the 40 sisters to write directly to Rupnik about their relationship with him as part of the Jubilee Year.

The sisters were instructed to describe what had happened and to offer forgiveness in a process of reconciliation. Twenty-two of the letters describe psychological, spiritual or sexual abuse.

The letters are held in the archives of the Loyola Community, now in the custody of the Archdiocese of Ljubljana. Their full contents have not been made public.

According to OSVNews, the letters describe alleged manipulation, coercion, abuse of authority, and physical and sexual assaults. Several sisters said Fr Rupnik used spiritual direction and religious language to pressure them into acts presented as expressions of purity or God's will.

Some sisters said that Fr Rupnik exploited knowledge of their previous experiences of abuse to facilitate further abuse.

The accounts are broadly consistent with allegations against Rupnik previously made public by Gloria Branciani and other women.

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“Graffiti is valid art, but it is hardly Michelangelo.”

“In TC Pope Francis stipulated that celebrants of the TLM could only be permitted to do so if they recognised the “validity and legitimacy” of the Vatican II liturgical reforms. But even so that is apparently not enough to allow the unfettered celebration licensed by Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum.  That said, questions of validity seem somewhat beside the point. Graffiti is valid art, but it is hardly Michelangelo. 

“Moreover, one has to wonder where the singling out of the SSPX is coming from if not personal animus. Bishops are regularly appointed by the Communist Government of China, and yet Rome is silent in the face of it, and no penalties ensue to the offending bishops who collaborate. Similarly, the German bishops who hold contrarian views and practices relating to gender and moral issues, and appear poised to go their own way, are not removed from office or even censured. So why is the SSPX exiled for dissenting (in conscience) on some fallible teachings of Vatican II?

“The late great mythologist, Joseph Campbell, had this to say on the question of the liturgical wars in the 1988 PBS series, “The Power of Myth”:

“EVEN IN THE Roman Catholic Church, MY GOD: THEY HAVE TRANSLATED THE MASS INTO A VULGAR VERNACULAR LANGUAGE THAT HAS A LOT OF DOMESTIC ASSOCIATIONS. LATIN IS A LANGUAGE THAT THROWS YOU OUT OF THE FIELD OF YOUR DOMESTICITY. THE PRIEST IS TURNED AND WITH HIS BACK TO YOU AND WITH HIM YOUR INNER DIVINITY ADDRESSES THE DIVINE OUTSIDE YOURSELF. NOW THEY HAVE TURNED THE ALTAR AROUND AND GIVING A JULIA CHILD DEMONSTRATION, AND IT IS ALL HOMEY AND COSY, PLAYING A GUITAR. THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT THE FUNCTION OF A RITUAL IS: TO PITCH YOU OUT, NOT TO WRAP YOU BACK IN TO WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN ALL THE TIME. RITUAL THAT ONCE CONVEYED AN INNER REALITY HAS NOW JUST BECOME A DEAD FORM.” (The Power of Myth: Truth and Theory).

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Catholic Star Wars: The SSPX Excommunication as You’ve Never Seen It

• By: Arthur Hallett-West
• August 1, 2026 
  
  
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Bishop Schneider: ‘Nothing more dangerous for religion’ than liturgical ‘interference’

The Church's 'apostolic rule' is that 'antiquity was retained, novelty was rejected,' according to Bishop Schneider.

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(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned in a sermon this weekend that “nothing is more dangerous for a religion” than “interference with the liturgy.”

The auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, defended the importance of upholding the Church’s sacred tradition, including its traditional liturgy, during a visit to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Limerick, Ireland.

He emphasized that it is a perpetual precept of the Catholic Church to remain faithful to its tradition, both “doctrinally and liturgically,” The Catholic Herald reported.

“True piety admits no other rule than that only those things which have been (faithfully) received from our fathers, those same are to be (faithfully) consigned to our children,” said Schneider.

“It is our duty not to lead religion wherever we would, but rather to follow religion where it leads, and that it is the path of Christian modesty not to hand down our own beliefs or observances,” he continued. We must “preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us.”

Apparently commenting on the current “liturgy wars,” Schneider affirmed that “public worship is inherently traditional,” stressing that this involves praying the liturgy as it exists “according to the norms already established by divine authority and handed over by the ancestors.”

Source: LifeSite