Archive for Category: "Fr. Vincent McNabb"
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Chesterton could not be contemporary of Marx, the Great War, the Russian Experiment, without seeing the social question to be, what Leo XIII stated it to be, “the Pressing Question of the hour.” He was one of the few who accepted the Pope’s invitation “to strive to secure the good of the people, and to bring to the struggle the full energy of his mind.”
Le Père Vincent McNabb: The Church and the Land
C’est principalement à partir du théologien médiéval et du pape du renouveau de la doctrine sociale de l’Église, que le père Vincent McNabb a travaillé dans le secteur rural et énoncé un certain nombre de positions qui recoupaient celles des distributistes.
The Thomist Inheritance and the Household Economy of Father Vincent McNabb
The thought of Fr. Vincent McNabb, the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, and Distributism should be included in this series because they are, quite simply, the most startling Catholic examples, in Britain this century, of the possibilities of ordinary life being thought about and lived in an extraordinary way.
Capitalism and Communism
You have gone away from the family and you have now arranged the world with the big mass thing in which it is impossible to lay the injustice of anything almost at the door of anybody.
Toward Social Thinking
It is quite evident that this existing state of things is substantially what Socialism is condemned for proposing to bring in! Moreover, it is equally evident that the state of things condemned by the Pope is not due to Socialism; but if attributable to any party, then to Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans or Democrats.
Human Machinery
There is a danger that industrialism, which has degraded qualitative production into quantitative, and has substituted token wealth for real wealth, may arrest the crystallisation of peace by seeing everything in the artificial light of the factory and by stating even human activity in terms of a machine.
An Economic Creed
From G.K.’s Weekly comes one of Fr. McNabb’s masterful and beautiful works ever written.