Originally published at National Catholic Register
Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain, described socialism as an ideology that is an “enemy of the cross” at the Conference on Catholics and Public Life organized by the Catholic Association of Propagandists (Advocates) this past weekend.
During his talk titled “Thinking and Acting in Times of Uncertainty,” Bishop Munilla pointed out that “we cannot confront this attack and this systematic imposition of a new society only with criticism and new political leadership, but rather a movement of converts is required. We will only get out of this crisis through a renewal of holiness.”
He also maintained that society needs a “change of worldview in which we go from being enemies of the cross to being the people of the cross” because, he emphasized, “without the cross there is no glory; it’s a great mistake to make a dichotomy between the cross and happiness; the cross leads us to glory, and glory is complete happiness.”
In this context, he described socialism as an “ideology that is an enemy of the cross” whose sociological and political currents have become “the grave of peoples, in which the ‘nanny state’ solves all the problems,” without appealing to the sacrifice and commitment of
