Abp. Nienstedt embraces socialism

Like many states, Minnesota is having a major political brawl over the budget.  Archbishop Nienstedt, who has spent most of his time here taking heat from the left over his views on marriage, is now getting some heat from the right for advocating "socialist" policies.  GOP state senator David Hann accused the Archbishop of endorsing "the socialist fiction that it is a moral necessity to take the property of the 'wealthy' under the assumption that those resources are better used by politicians and bureaucrats than by the individuals who earn them." For good measure, Sen. Hann threw a quote from R.R. Reno at the Archbishop proposing that the problem with the American poor is primarily moral, not financial.  Despite our ongoing efforts, Church teaching continues to defy easy political categorization!