Common Good, Private Good, and Personal Dignity
Man possesses dignity because he participates in a good that is clearly higher than himself.
A Postmodern Encyclical
Pope Benedict wrote the first postmodern encyclical, one that capitalizes on the post-Enlightenment and post-secular weariness with secular reason.
The Rise and Fall of Branson
Branson, Missouri, exists as a kind of sign. It’s the abandoned suburban shopping mall of the Ozarks—or at least is fast becoming that.
The Authority of Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno
Economic questions are essentially moral questions, and therefore how we respond falls within the pale of the Church’s authority.
Întreprinderile de tip cooperatist
Modelul cooperatist și-a dovedit din plin funcționalitatea concret, pe teren, în diverse zone ale lumii.
O que a centesimus annus realmente ensina?
Em Centesimus annus, João Paulo não aceita a premissa básica ou a lógica do livre mercado.
The Closing of the Commercial Commons
The commons has disappeared into the corporate collective, a collective as brutal and as unfree as anything ever imagined by Josef Stalin.
O Blessed Lady of the Fields
This handsome prayer book should be of great interest to distributists for the essential devotions that are at the heart of agrarian life.
Solzhenitsyn and Distributism
There are remarkable parallels between the ideas set forth by Solzhenitsyn and the ideas espoused by Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc fifty years earlier.
Scaling Business
The pervasive fear of any state influence on the size of a business is based on the philosophical error that man's natural state is apolitical and asocial.
Chesterbelloc e o Distributismo
“ChesterBelloc” verão de perto as transformações tecnológicas e industriais que a Inglaterra vivenciou ao final do século XIX.
La “tregua unilaterale” con il mondo
Il mondo moderno è diventato irreale. È diventato irreale perché rifiuta la realtà ultima. Rifiuta Dio.
The Catholic Land Movement
One of the most explicit motives of those who are turning their faces towards the land is the desire to restore the Catholic Family.
The “One-sided Truce” with the Modern World
The modern world has become unreal. It has become unreal because it rejects the ultimate reality. It rejects God.
Anything Worth Doing
To make our ruminations worthwhile we must seek Distributism’s actualization; we must seek to remake our society according to the distributist vision.
The Disease of Monopoly
This disease of monopoly, which is ruining freedom, and against which nearly all men protest, is a main symptom of our modern mortal disease.
Are They Pro-Life?
There may be attractive reasons for voting Sanders or Paul, but both fall short of advancing a pro-life culture and pro-family economy.
The African Who Brought Chesterton to Sierra Leone
“I had discovered Gilbert Keith Chesterton,” says Kanu, “and I wanted to apply his ideas about man and economics to my country."
Answer to John Cort
Dorothy Day repudiates John Cort and other Catholics who see Distributism as an agrarian visionary dream.
Economic Participation
More ownership is rarely explored today because we have accepted the separation of ownership and work as the gold standard of economic progress.