Archive for Category: "History"
Locke and InsideCatholic
For Leo, men don’t form the state because they want to protect their property; they form the state because his “natural instinct moves him to live in civil society, for he cannot, if dwelling apart, provide himself with the necessary requirements of life, nor procure the means of developing his mental and moral faculties.”
‘The Distributive Alternative’
Russell Sparkes addresses the theoretical background and intellectual origins of Distributism in order to counter some of the ill-informed criticisms made against it by contemporaries and recently revived by critics worried by the renewed interest in it.
The Market and the Moral Man
When we come to the subject of morality, there is very little cause-effect argumentation which is demonstrated for the market and morals. This is because it is painfully obvious that the market does not of its own workings produce moral men.
The Fall of the Wall
The history of the world since 1918, and particularly since the end of World War II, had been dominated by the struggle with communism, and most of that time it looked like we were losing. Yalta had allowed Stalin to swallow up Eastern Europe, which quickly became a prison for its own people. China fell, and a bloody stalemate was reached in Korea.
Catholic Colony-Making in 19th Century America
There were many other attempted colonies, successful and unsuccessful, especially in different areas of the mid-west, from Ohio to Minnesota in the north and to Arkansas in the south. Many of these communities were founded by German-speaking Catholics from Switzerland, Austria and Germany, which at that time was divided into a number of independent states.