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by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Catholic social doctrine, distributism, Education, G.K. Chesterton, government, News, Stratford Caldecott, The Dispatch | 0 |
One of the problems plaguing the free world is that it has largely forgotten meaning and nature of freedom. When people are liberated enough to do more or less what they will, they tend to […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Capitalism, Catholic social teaching, distributism, Economics, Edward McGlynn, Essay, Features, G.K. Chesterton, Gregory XVI, Henry George, Hilaire Belloc, History, Mirari Vos, modernism, Mortimer Adler, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, socialism, Vatican I, Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci | 0 |
From the pontificate of Gregory XVI down to the present day, there has been an ongoing crisis precipitated by the advent of the “New Things” (rerum novarum) of socialism and modernism. Since 1832 and the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | distributism, Economics, family, Featured, integralism, News | 0 |
This is the final installment of this series. Parts I and II were previously published on Catholic Exchange. Point 4: Private property is an inviolable right yet one that must work in tandem with the larger and general good of the community, in conjunction with points 5 (subsidiarity) and point 6 (solidarity). Private property is […]
Before I tell you what is right, I would like to begin with commenting on what is wrong. For us, sadly, what’s good for the political goose is good for the economic gander. Capitalism or communism: often, capitalism is “good” if not “great” while communism “bad” if not “evil.” Fair enough in the latter; I […]
by bcadmin | Mar 29, 2022 | Belloc, Catechesis, Chesterton, distributism, Features, formation, Joseph Ratzinger, News, Opinion | 0 |
People who are serious about handing on the faith to the next generation, whether they are in Catholic parishes or schools, have been frustrated by the same problem: the widening gap between faith and the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Chesterton, Dale Ahlquist, distributism, Hollywood, News, pro-life, Social Doctrine, The Dispatch | 0 |
A crucially important feature of Catholic social teaching, but one frequently underemphasized or misunderstood, is a clear animus against the concentration of power within a society. This perilous agglomeration can happen economically, politically, or …
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 8, 2020 | Art & Culture, atherine de Hueck Dougherty, Bing Crosby, Catholic Worker, distributism, Eugene McCarthy, Featured, John Courtney Murray, News, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, Robert Lowell, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Memory is a tricky thing, and historical memory can be trickier. For example, to many Catholic Americans, the 1950s look like a golden age of innocence, when life—especially church life—looked like a series of Norman Rockwell and Harold Anderson illustrations. As with all such reminiscences, it is not entirely inaccurate. Certainly America’s Catholics benefited alongside […]
by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2020 | American Solidarity Party, Coronavirus, distributism, Featured, jubilee, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to […]
by bcadmin | Feb 3, 2020 | Capitalism, Centessimus Annus, distributism, Donald J. Trump, Dorothy Sayers, economy, Featured, integralism, News, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, socialism, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Andrew Yang is a man ahead of his time. Mark my words: within our lifetime, his ominous-sounding “Freedom Dividend—basically a universal basic income, or UBI—will become a plank of at least one of our two major political parties. And how could it be otherwise? Mr. Yang argues (correctly) that the developed world is going through […]
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