Archive for Category: "Politics"
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.”
An Advent Reflection
Although Tito broke with the USSR and although his score of, for example, priests put to death and students imprisoned is not as high as those of other Communist dictators, this does not make him a leader to admire.
The Zuccotti Purge
The point is not that the cops are all bad guys while the occupiers are good, or even that Occupation is itself the answer. Rather, the question is how did it get to the point that many people’s only experience of close-knit community is a protest encampment?
Victims of Mammon
Liberalism produces its own mirror images. The miracle is that there are so many who have escaped the liberal dialectic. Let us reject the idol of liberalism by refusing to sacrifice the poor and oppressed on its altar, the altar of Mammon.
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Anonymous’ involvement with the protests, in a sense, muddies the waters: it’s a genuinely creepy group, committed to genuine anarchy; one of its slogans is “We are Legion,” a reference to what the demons said when Christ was casting them out.
A Short Primer for Protestors
Distributists realize that we cannot rely simply on good will to establish or maintain a just social order. Many people might be content with sufficient income and never aspire to dominate others economically. But history shows that there are some who will not be content with a reasonable portion of the goods of this world.
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street protestors need to adopt a Distributist platform of local accountable government, local business, local infrastructure, local banks, and justice.
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.
Practical Distributism: Subsidiarity and Social Security
When distributists examine any societal issue that needs to be addressed, the principle of subsidiarity should automatically kick in. What is the lowest level of society that can sufficiently address that need and to what extent (and in what way) should higher levels of society assist?