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In contrast to most other American conservatives, for whom Christianity and [[capitalism]] did not contradict but complemented each other, ''Triumph'' inveighed against capitalism in the tradition of [[Pope Leo XIII]]'s watershed encyclical ''[[Rerum Novarumnovarum]]'' and [[Pope Pius XI]]'s ''[[Quadragesimo Anno]]'' and identified its economic views most closely with the [[distributism]] of [[G.K. Chesterton]]. The magazine also had no sympathy for the alternative of [[socialism]], against which there was a century of papal opposition. Despite being ardently anti-Communist, ''Triumph'' opposed the [[Vietnam War]] on the grounds that the conflict violated the [[Just War theory]]. The editors were already soured by US complicity in the assassination of the Catholic President of [[South Vietnam]] [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] but were further dismayed by rumors of American use of [[chemical weapons]]. ''Triumph'' then declared itself totally against [[nuclear deterrence]] (which Bozell had been a staunch advocate of early in his career) as incompatible with the Catholic faith.