Richard Aleman is the president of The Society for Distributism, a contributing editor for Gilbert Magazine, The Remnant, and he blogs at St. Austin Review‘s Ink Desk. A native Spaniard, Richard resides in New York where he has just completed The Hound of Distributism, a book of various authors.

Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage

Those who suggest that marriage is simply the emotional union of two adults, or that the government should not be in the marriage business at all, advocate for what we may call a “social free market,” that is, an individualist theory that reduces government functions to facilitating “choice”.

Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism

As the Distributists and NCRLC argued, restoring economic functions to the family eliminated the concentration and collectivism by corporations and states unconcerned with the quality and distribution of our food or the preservation of mass ownership.

A Message for the Home

Just as our grandfathers once faced hard choices, let us be remembered as the men and women who resurrected the economy of “many small places and many local heroes.”

2011 Una Voce Symposium

Held on October 14th at the Harvard Club of New York by Una Voce, an international organization promoting the Latin Tridentine Mass, the 2011 Una Voce Symposium featured authors Christopher A. Ferrara and John Médaille on the topic of Distributism.

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The Beginning

Today, our flyer is being handed out not only on Wall Street, but in cities like Spokane, Columbus, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis and this is one more reason why Distributism is viable. It sparks the imagination in the common man and encourages him not only to write, but to act.

The Immigrants Part II

Without start-up capital, immigrants historically drew upon the resources and strengths of their unique communities and traded among themselves. Perhaps if we build a practical Distributism culture, citizens of the world can look forward to Chesterton’s first option for finding one’s way home: never having to leave it.

The Immigrants Still Believe in God

The Left’s lighthearted, unblemished caricatures perpetuating “victimless” crimes or the Right’s demonization of our southern neighbors as criminal escalators, both fail to capture the stark reality that human beings, regardless of legal status, shocking as it may be, sometimes engage in criminal behavior and sometimes are law-abiding.

The Continuity of Centesimus Annus

Another thing Centesimus does not do, is discard those “third way fantasies” Mr. Weigel is so excited to dismiss. The implications are that we either have the concentration of property in the hands of the State or in the hands of the few. But the very document he adamantly defends as embracing the “free market” debunks this position.

Catholic Illustrator’s Guild

It our pleasure and honor to introduce our readers to The Catholic Illustrator’s Guild. May the 21st century spark new artists following in the footsteps of Bl. Fra Angelico.