The Church stands for Humanity not the State

I thought this article was interesting (The Church, the State, and the Degradation of the Human Person). This paragraph summed it up pretty well I think.

"... this is the century that the Statemongers among us tell us is the century of progress and enlightenment and reason. Owing to the triumph of messianic ideologies of social gospels and what Pope Benedict XVI calls the 'do-it-yourself paradise' ushered in by the State, Americans have been taught to believe that society is progressing toward some kind of ever-improving world of equality and freedom. John Paul II found this idea dangerous at best and totalitarian at worst. If human society is progressing so well, why is it that we find nothing in the annals of ancient or medieval history to compare with the atrocities of the 20th century? The concentration camps, the gulags, the wars, the nuclear wastelands, and the mountains of human corpses – where is the enlightenment and the reason? The truth for John Paul was that as the modern world progressed toward the 20th century, Western civilization was actually regressing toward a degradation of the value of the human person."