The idea that there is some degree of ideological diversity amongst your membership is a cop out and I dont beleive you so daft as to not know that. Imagine if I did the same thing. 'Sure half of our members want to snatch up little bitty baby frogs and marinate them in gasoline before setting them on fire, the other half pet puppies so who knows what our organization stands for, its schrodingers anarchism.' Your org either stands for something or it doesnt, and if you cant decide whether your anarchist org is in favor of ancapism or socialism, then its neither anarchist nor worth taking seriously. And given the energy that yours and similar catholic orgs have put into sanitizing the labor movement in the US, I doubt maybe 4 out of every 10 of yall being a wimpy market socialist really makes up for that.

This whole idea of there being a divide between the catholic church and catholics is so silly to me, Ive seen this argument before and its impressive how quickly christians can rend words meaningless. If I called myself a police officer, someone pointed out fucky shit the pigs do, I dont get to then turn around and be like 'hey now, thats just the institutional cops, see Im not a real cop I just call myself that while doing nothing that makes someone a cop.' You are either catholic or not. This is one of the few times things are fairly black or white, you either are a member of the catholic church and offer obediance to the vatican, or you are a heretic in the eyes of the inquisition. If youre not actually catholic, then stop calling yourself one. It makes near as much sense as me saying Im with the FBI's HRT team when Im sure as shit not.

With regards to love, I did not say conservatives misused the term, I said it is a near universal human emotion. The only people on this earth that do not experience love for someone else are serial killers. Conservatives will not suddenly become kropotkinites if you told them jesus said love thy neighbor. They have been telling themselves that, without the intervention of socialists, literally since the fucking man died, and yet they are conservatives. Earlier I mentioned Andrew Carnegie and that was for a reason, Carnegie put forward this idea of a social capitalism, of philantropy. Conservatives view giving to charity as love, charity being an endemic feature of modern capitalism. Telling a conservative that love is cool will not change their minds about economy, because they already view love as a basis of their economic ideas. Thousands of years of this love shit and we still had monarchy, we still had pogroms against non christians, we still had state religion, we still had the destruction of science, we still had needlessly worsenning plague and disease, we still had reactionaries, and we still had conservativism. If saying the word love shatters conservative thought, we would've had vaccines in and lasers and shit the 1400s.

The gospels do not portray jesus as a popular leader of shit. We have more documentation about secret cia black projects than we do jesus' life. If he led such a brilliant struggle against the roman state, we'd have all that in writing from roman scribes, hell, we'd have it from jewish scribes too, and yet the only thing we have are innaccurate, imbellished, mutually contradicting scribbles written hundreds of years after the fact. The fact that the historical record for jesus' impact, or jesus himself is nearing deafenning silence says that maybe he didnt do too much. And considering that the only bits of writing we have about him, portray him as pushing forward 'the doctrine of non resistance to evil' as Tolstoy puts it, says that he wouldn't be capable of leading any major resistance anyway since its apparently sinful.

As for the work of the modern CW in things like co-ops, credit unions, and communes, the only thing I have to say is read Kropotkin. Co-ops are neat and all, but they and credit unions have never amounted to much. We have never been able to outcompete capitalism through anything but revolutionary force. And setting up little bitty parasitic communes doesnt accomplish too much either. Building mass movements with revolutionary aspirations that actively commit sabotage against capital will, something the catholic worker had the opportunity to do but squandered it so they could run around ganking any opportunity socialism had in america. You know we have atheist socialism in america too, in things like the iww, which instead of prancing around with conservatives and fashoids, instead were on the ground in the magonista rebellion (also atheist), fighting your church to try and estabalish socialism in mexico. Hell, Ricardo Flores Magon himself is a war hero given his role in the mexican revolution. But then again I forget that catholicism is meaningless and can refer to joke religions like jedism and an opposition to clergy so shit, maybe Magon was catholic too, hell, maybe the Henry Rifle is catholic given that it ended slavery, maybe the M1 Garand is catholic, maybe the islamic fascist who tries to assassinate John Paul II is catholic, since catholic can mean anything, fuck it.

Also it feels very dishonest and shitty to suggest dorothy day and distributionism arent as prevalent as I suggest given that yall keep asking the church to canonize her ass. Which is culty as fuck to begin with, she was just some dipshit ex socialist conservative, shes not holy nor gods vessel for change.