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Catholic Action: Uses, Abuses and Excuses
Catholic Action: Uses, Abuses and Excuses is the name of a seminal study written for The Saint George Educational Trust by Liam Connolly and published in booklet form in the late 1990’s.
The study highlights a fundamental incongruity between Catholic Action as defined by Pope Saint Pius X and the concept later promoted under the same name by Pope Pius XI.
The study struck a deep chord with Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais of the Society of Saint Pius X and led to him publishing his own article on the subject, entitled Catholic Action Defined in the August 2003 edition of The Angelus magazine.
Suffice it to say that earning one’s salt requires Catholics in action, rather than Catholic inaction.
Available from SGET for £5.00 including p&p. Cheques/postal orders payable to ‘The Saint George Educational Trust.
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Usury
“Usury does not mean high interest. It means any interest, however low, demanded for an unproductive loan.
It is not only immoral but it is ultimately destructive of society. It has only been the rule of our commerce to take usury since the breakup of Europe following on the Reformation.
Usury will destroy our society, but meanwhile there is no escape from it. We are coming near the end of its maleficent action, not through awaking to its evils but because it is reaching the end of its resources.
The modern world is organized on the principle that money of its nature breeds money. A sum of money lent has, according to our present scheme, a natural right to interest.
In this essay Hilaire Belloc shows that principle is false in economics as in morals. It ruined Rome, and it is bringing us to our end.”
Belloc’s essay on usury, a sinful practice thoroughly condemned by the Church, is available from SGET for £5.00 including p&p.
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Deadly Duo
Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property — the basis of economic freedom — and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered. But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism……..
– Hilaire Belloc
Economy of Common Sense
“It is imperative in the cause of civilization, that we save the small producer and the small distributor. . . . . He is all-important to human society and, under a scheme of properly distributed property, though his property would not be large it would be sufficient for this independence, his dignity and the security of his livelihood”.
– Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic Moment has Arrived
“After the Brexit vote, Britain’s politicians are scrambling around for ideas. They should begin with Pope Leo XIII’s masterpiece Rerum Novarum”.
Apart for the nonsense about Christian Democracy – i.e. in historical practice it was Social Modernism and Liberalism – of which Pope Leo XIII gave warning and which Pope Saint Pius X had to suppress [ “Moreover, Christian Democracy must have nothing to do with politics, and never be made to serve political ends or parties ; this is not its field….” ] this is a very worthwhile article.
Read more at The Catholic Herald………
Catholicism is The Social Alternative
Did you know the terms ‘Left-Wing’ and ‘Right-Wing’ originate from the French Revolution? Those who grouped together and sat on different sides of the Revolutionary Legislature, Montagnards on the Left, Girondins on the Right, were Jacobins one and all.
Both Left and Right belonged to the same anti-Catholic System that severely persecuted and sought to destroy the Catholic Church.
Nothing has changed.
The only alternative to the anti-Christian and anti-human social engineering of Left and Right is the traditional social and moral doctrines of the Catholic Church.
If you reject the System – Catholicism is the radical alternative
