‘Jesus was a socialist’: Bernie Sanders Excites Previously Unmotivated Alabama Voters.

[Joe Chi Minh]

43. Jesus would defnitely be accused of being a Communist by right-wing Catholics,

as Pope Francis is, regularly. I particularly like this saying of Jesus, in Matthew 6:24:

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

But Francis, without seeming to mean to be caustic, defines his incorrigible critics (who constantly revile him effectively as a revolutionary, because he follow the church's actual teaching, clearly based on the Gospels), with the most withering accuracy.
He makes his point well in this article in the Vatican Insider:

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/francesco-sudamerica-42350/

The following paragraph appears in an another article, among a host of such good articles following his trip to South America. Note particularly the last sentence:

It is this outlook that allows Francis to pronounce courageous words, fully in tune with the Christian tradition. As St. Ambrose said: “It is not from your own possessions that you are bestowing aims on the poor, you are but restoring to them what is theirs by right. For what was given to everyone for the use of all, you have taken for your exclusive use.” “Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth but theirs,” St. John Chrysostom wrote. These were the teachings of the Fathers of the Church in the early years of the Church. So the question is not whether the Pope is a communist or spends too much time speaking about the poor. The real question is: why have these teachings been forgotten in the Church to the point that the Argentinean Pope’s preaching appears revolutionary?