The Sun of Justice (An Essay on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church) by Harold Robbins (1888-1954) is a classic Distributist text. Robbins, Chairman of the Birmingham branch of the Distributist League and editor for Cross and the Plough, the official organ of the Catholic Land Federation, wrote what Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day described [...]
“Finance wields an immediate and immense power; but it is like the power of a spell or spoken charm. The victim of the magician… is always partly to blame for his own paralysis.” – G.K. Chesterton.In the summer of 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave a stirring speech, appropriate for today. Carter warned of a crisis of [...]
Get Joseph Pearce's talk Small is Beautiful: The Resurrection of Chestertonian Economics free! Starting today the American Chesterton Society is offering a downloadable mp3 of Joseph Pearce's talk from the 26th Annual Chesterton Conference, for free! That's right, for the next 72 hours (offer ends on Friday) you can download the talk at no cost. In [...]
Por: Matthew P. Akers En: Saint Austin Review dic-09 Traducción: Alfonso Díaz Vera La adaptación cinematográfica de "El señor de los anillos", dirigida por Peter Jackson, ha incrementado la popularidad del clásico de Tolkien entre los espectadores y lectores del siglo XXI, convirtiendo a Tolkien y su libro en nombres familiares. Aunque mucho menos conocido, el [...]
Following Joseph Pearce's brilliant announcement about the Italian editions of distributist classics like G.K. Chesterton's The Outline of Sanity and What's Wrong with the World, I thought perhaps I could add some existing foreign-language editions of classic distributist works, including the French version of Joseph's Small Is Still Beautiful. Hilaire Belloc Spanish edition of The Servile [...]
Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More by John Médaille ISI Books 256 pp. $21.56 From the beginning Distributists have been the victors in the moral debate against socialism and capitalism. Rarely, however, have they presented a case as compelling from an economic standpoint. [...]
The Church and the Libertarian by Christopher A. Ferrara The Remnant Press, 2010 http://www.remnantnewspaper.com 383 pp. $25.00 "[W]hat was the matter with the doctrine of laissez-faire was not that it believed that liberty could preserve equality, where there was none to preserve. It was that it preached liberty, or rather license, to increase an inequality [...]
The family's limited participation in the manufacturing of medium to large-scale goods appears to present us with a challenge. Large-scale industry is needed to accommodate the production of heavy machinery, automobiles, and other technologies we use everyday. To the skeptic, Distributism seems unresponsive to these needs and incapable of fitting into our modern framework. In part, [...]
The mention of Distributism often draws skepticism by those who, while valuing its merits, believe Distributism incapable of providing satisfactory answers to our modern needs. From chewing gum to automobiles, chairs to food stuffs or toys to beer, we live in a world consumed by and dependent on mass-produced goods and large scale industry. The Distributist’s [...]
Author and attorney Christopher A. Ferrara speaks to Jeremiah Bannister about his book “The Church and the Libertarian.” They discuss the Austro-libertarian movement, Catholic Social Teaching, and Distributism. This interview runs just under one hour. http://distributistreview.com/mag/2010/08/an-interview-with-christopher-ferrara/ To purchase Mr. Ferrara’s book, please go to: http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2010-ferrara-church-libertarian.htm
