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Two Difficulties
Injustices must be removed, bad systems changed, human values made effective once more in their right order. But these things cannot be done so long as the men and women of the nation are ignorant, apathetic, even antagonistic to what they ought to cherish.
The Starting Point for Economic Thought
If our human arrangements, our economic systems, our laws, our tax policies, obscure that God-given harmony between work and workers, we ought to change these human constructs so that they reflect better and more closely the order that God clearly intended.
Tales of the Long Bow
The tales were first published separately, but they are clearly woven together. The characters are carefully and lovingly drawn. Each one makes an understated, yet magnificent, yet entirely appropriate entrance, as in the best sort of drama. Or comedy.
The Ruin of the Small Storekeeper
The phrase “small distributor” is a pompous but accurate way of saying “small storekeeper.” He also was an economically free man as was the unencumbered farmer of his own land. The small storekeeper was an independent citizen under no master. He is threatened with disappearance like his brother the small owner: the craftsman, the farmer.
The Reality of Localism
We are raised by our parents, but we inevitably have substantial contact with others around us, and others around us are inevitably those who come from the same locality as we do.
An Economic Creed
From G.K.’s Weekly comes one of Fr. McNabb’s masterful and beautiful works ever written.