Já existiu uma Reforma

Estará o Rui A. ali em baixo a sugerir outra Reforma na Igreja e por causa do seu alegado igualitarismo? Mas será igualitarismo ou universalismo?

O padre citado provavelmente quererá dizer algo mais completo e personalista que o marxismo ideológico em si. Talvez o carácter revolucionário de um Deus feito homem que viria a morrer fraco e sem qualquer expressão de poder (nem deslumbramento pelo poder) na cruz, depois de exaltar os pobres e fracos. E existe um elemento pacifista em Jesus Cristo. Talvez o padre visse em alguns marxistas, nos sinceros e apóstolos da causa, pessoas com um traço similar, acho que já todos os conhecemos num dado momento. Maiores que Marx e o comunismo. Zeca Afonso?

Mas como disse Rothbard sobre Marx, a primeira coisa que é preciso compreender em Marx é que este... era um comunista. 

Existe um elemento teológico no marxismo similar a muitos protestantismos, e sobre isso escreve Rothbard:

"Communism was the great goal, the vision, the desideratum, the ultimate end that would make the sufferings of mankind throughout history worthwhile. History was the history of suffering, of class struggle, of the exploitation of man by man. In the same way as the return of the Messiah, in Christian theology, will put an end to history and establish a new heaven and a new earth, so the establishment of communism would put an end to human history.

And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

In messianic religious movements, the millennium is invariably established by a mighty, violent upheaval, an Armageddon, a great apocalyptic war between good and evil. After this titanic conflict, a millennium, a new age of peace and harmony, of the reign of justice, will be installed upon the earth.

Marx emphatically rejected those utopian socialists who sought to arrive at communism through a gradual and evolutionary process, through a steady advancement of the good. Instead, Marx harked back to the apocalyptics, the postmillennial coercive German and Dutch Anabaptists of the 16th century, to the millennial sects during the English Civil War, and to the various groups of premillennial Christians who foresaw a bloody Armageddon at the Last Days, before the millennium could be established.

Indeed, since the apocalyptic post-mils refused to wait for a gradual goodness and sainthood to permeate mankind, they joined the pre-mils in believing that only a violent, apocalyptic, final struggle between good and evil, between saints and sinners, could usher in the millennium. Violent, worldwide revolution, in Marx's version to be made by the oppressed proletariat, would be the inevitable instrument for the advent of his millennium, communism."

Ler em "Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist", http://mises.org/daily/3769

Mas tudo isto é estranho ao pensamento católico (o catolicismo é a-miléniista).