Socialism is incompatible with Church teaching and virtuous living

It is not the role of the Federal government to provide for—name it. It is the role of the Federal government to create an atmosphere where people can do what we are called to do as individuals (not collectively as a government), which is to be our brother’s keeper, which is in fact to provide for those who are needy in our society. That’s the bottom line. What we’ve seen in our society is this collectivist idea that we need to just go out and collect taxes from everybody, and by paying your tribute to Washington, you’ve now done your duty to provide for your fellow man as you are required to under biblical teaching, under Church teaching; that’s just simply false. And we need to get back—and I say this as part of our organization called patriot voices, and I say this to conservatives—if you want government smaller, people have to get bigger. And that’s the message. They want government bigger; people will get smaller. That’s not the Catholic vision; that’s not the biblical vision of Jesus Christ.

-Rick Santorum, The World Over, August 16, 2012