The late Fr. James Schall, S.J., often said “The modern world is nothing more than a gigantic effort to accomplish the transcendental ends of Catholicism not by grace and faith, but by our own efforts in this world.” That was certainly the goal of the atheistic Karl Marx and his Communist followers who thought that if they just seized the property of the capitalists and took power on behalf of the workers, a “workers’ paradise” would result. But it didn’t. Instead, their “par