There are nineteen such passages and the reader can verify them Exod. Here, however, I shall translate two of them because standard translations tend to cause confusion and render them unrecognizable. 3.02 Middle Ages . Communism did not die out with the early church or prove to be unworkable, but has always been part of our tradition. The Acts of the Apostles record that communism was successful in preventing economic need in the early church.
Monasticism is an example of communism at a later stage in church history.
The religious orders have common ownership of property. Like any modern-day communist society, they provided health care, housing, education and jobs to all their members without cost. Hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns in Catholic religious communities throughout the world, both in the past and in the present, have lived comfortable, working lives as a result of the communist system. For such monastics, anti-communism is a betrayal of their own way of life. 3.03 U.S. 20th Century .