Catholic Social Teaching
Policing the sacred and constructing the myths of the secular state, from Locke to Obama
The Kingship Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation
The Kingship Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation
by Fr. Denis Fahey C.S.Sp.
“I repeatedly promised Saint Peter that if I ever got the chance, I would teach the truth about his Master in the way he and his successors, the Roman Pontiffs, wanted it done. That is what I have striven to do and am doing.” — Rev. Denis Fahey
No man is wise who does not think correctly about the Jews. On this subject it is very easy to be wrong, and there are many different varieties of errors into which to fall. They are a unique type of collectivity—a matter for history, not for sociology.
Their election in the Old Testament, which we must accept on faith, is at least as mysterious as their rejection in the New Testament. The Jews are willing to take the first part of the bargain, which they did not deserve, but not the second, which they did. Ever since the moment of the Crucifixion, the Jews are engaged in a mystical war against the Church, but they are only effective when the Faith is weak.
A true, firm, and unsentimental understanding of the Jewish problem is absolutely necessary for one who must protect the Faith and the faithful. The higher the responsibility, the greater the necessity.
Fr. Fahey begs us to pray for the Conversion of the Jewish nation, but he teaches us to prudently study and to wisely understand reality in their regard.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages
The Kingship of Christ and Organised Naturalism
The Kingship of Christ and Organised Naturalism
by Fr Denis Fahey, S.S.Sp
One of the most important books you could read! Fr. Fahey masterfully details the contrast between the Church's social teachings and organized naturalism, which is nothing more than Freemasonry and the work of other groups which are always striving to make what is now called "Secular Humanism" the dominant ideology ruling the world. They have succeeded to a large degree; but, by reading this book you will not only be better able to recognize their errors, you will be inspired to reverse the gains they have made and help advance the Social Reign of Christ the King!
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 156 pages
by Fr Denis Fahey, S.S.Sp
One of the most important books you could read! Fr. Fahey masterfully details the contrast between the Church's social teachings and organized naturalism, which is nothing more than Freemasonry and the work of other groups which are always striving to make what is now called "Secular Humanism" the dominant ideology ruling the world. They have succeeded to a large degree; but, by reading this book you will not only be better able to recognize their errors, you will be inspired to reverse the gains they have made and help advance the Social Reign of Christ the King!
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 156 pages
The Kingship of Christ according to St Thomas Aquinas
The Kingship of Christ according to St Thomas Aquinas
by Fr Denis Fahey
“I repeatedly promised Saint Peter that if I ever got the chance, I would teach the truth about his Master in the way he and his successors, the Roman Pontiffs, wanted it done. That is what I have striven to do and am doing.” —Rev. Denis Fahey
This book is the first published by Fr. Denis Fahey, the great apostle of the Kingship of Christ in the 20th century. In it he lays down the essential philosophical and theological principles that undergird and enliven the entire published corpus of his life’s work in defense of the Social Rights of God, in direct opposition to the nefarious Declaration of the Rights of Man that was the published declaration of war against Catholic civilization issued by the “enlightened” Freemasons who were responsible for the French Revolution.
The war that Fr. Fahey so clearly delineated and chronicled is still engaged, even though few Catholics understand the nature and the extent of this war against human society and especially against Our Lord in His Mystical Body, the Catholic Church. The two ancient battle cries “We will not have this Man rule over us!” and “Non Serviam!” have been vividly revived in the 20th century by a host of enemies of Christ’s Kingship over human society. Until all human society—especially national governments—publicly recognize that Kingship, civilization will continue on its downward spiral.
We hope that the re-publication of Fr. Fahey’s works will assist the Faithful in their attempts to restore all things in Christ for the future of our children and our children’s children and for the Greater Glory of God!
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 196 pages
Money Manipulation and Social Order
Money Manipulation and Social Order
by Fr. Denis Fahey C.S.Sp.
The art of money manipulation is similar to the art of manipulating the number of inches in a foot or ounces in a pound or days in a week. Those who can do it are in control of the lives and fortunes of those who cannot. Since peace within societies and between nations must be founded upon justice, it stands to reason that there cannot be any justice or peace in a world where the manipulators of money control the economic order to their own advantage. The Christian social order of the nation inevitably breaks down.
The money question is very much on the mind of the American people today. Only the Catholic Church has the answers that we seek. Father Fahey is among the best expositors of the social Kingship of Christ and the economic principles of a Christian social order.
“According to right order, then, money or exchange medium is for the production of material goods, and the production of material goods is for the virtuous life of members of Christ of which the foundation is laid in the Christian family. Money, according to Saint Thomas, was invented by the art of man for the convenience of exchange by serving as a common measure of things saleable.” — Quoted from Chapter Two
“Stability in value is a property or necessary attribute of an exchange medium. Money is meant to facilitate families in procuring by exchange the sufficiency of material goods required for the virtuous life of the human personalities composing them. The virtuous life of human persons is simply their ordered development in supernatural life as members of Christ”. — Quoted from Chapter Two
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 100 pages
by Fr. Denis Fahey C.S.Sp.
The art of money manipulation is similar to the art of manipulating the number of inches in a foot or ounces in a pound or days in a week. Those who can do it are in control of the lives and fortunes of those who cannot. Since peace within societies and between nations must be founded upon justice, it stands to reason that there cannot be any justice or peace in a world where the manipulators of money control the economic order to their own advantage. The Christian social order of the nation inevitably breaks down.
The money question is very much on the mind of the American people today. Only the Catholic Church has the answers that we seek. Father Fahey is among the best expositors of the social Kingship of Christ and the economic principles of a Christian social order.
“According to right order, then, money or exchange medium is for the production of material goods, and the production of material goods is for the virtuous life of members of Christ of which the foundation is laid in the Christian family. Money, according to Saint Thomas, was invented by the art of man for the convenience of exchange by serving as a common measure of things saleable.” — Quoted from Chapter Two
“Stability in value is a property or necessary attribute of an exchange medium. Money is meant to facilitate families in procuring by exchange the sufficiency of material goods required for the virtuous life of the human personalities composing them. The virtuous life of human persons is simply their ordered development in supernatural life as members of Christ”. — Quoted from Chapter Two
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 100 pages
Church's Position on Dancing
Church's Position on Dancing
by Abbe Henri Louis Hulot
The moral dangers of the too common and too fashionable amusements of dancing are pointed out, with as much force as clearness and learning, in this small but valuable book. The author extracts proofs from the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Fathers, Holy Councils, and from the theologians most renowned for their piety and learning.
Familiarity removes, often, a due appreciation of the dangers of the dance. There are Catholics who seem to have become skeptical as to the very existence of the danger attendant on their supposed innocent recreations.
We hope that these collected proofs will enlighten the mind and change the heart of those who have been the advocates of dancing, solely because they have never sufficiently considered the evils of which it is the cause and the occasion.
"But, you will say, the Commandments of God do not forbid dancing, nor does Holy Scripture, either. Perhaps you have not examined them very closely. Follow me for a moment and you will see that there is not a Commandment of God which dancing does not cause to be transgressed, nor a Sacrament which it does not cause to be profaned." - St. John Vianney
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 95 pages
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by Abbe Henri Louis Hulot
The moral dangers of the too common and too fashionable amusements of dancing are pointed out, with as much force as clearness and learning, in this small but valuable book. The author extracts proofs from the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Fathers, Holy Councils, and from the theologians most renowned for their piety and learning.
Familiarity removes, often, a due appreciation of the dangers of the dance. There are Catholics who seem to have become skeptical as to the very existence of the danger attendant on their supposed innocent recreations.
We hope that these collected proofs will enlighten the mind and change the heart of those who have been the advocates of dancing, solely because they have never sufficiently considered the evils of which it is the cause and the occasion.
"But, you will say, the Commandments of God do not forbid dancing, nor does Holy Scripture, either. Perhaps you have not examined them very closely. Follow me for a moment and you will see that there is not a Commandment of God which dancing does not cause to be transgressed, nor a Sacrament which it does not cause to be profaned." - St. John Vianney
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 95 pages
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Modernism
Modernism
"The synthesis of all heresies" - Pope St Pius X (Pascendi)
by Michael Davies
Developed from a lecture delivered to Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by the late Michael Davies.
Prior to Vatican II, 80% of young people leaving Catholic schools practised the faith, today, 3% do. The much vaunted New Pentecost is seemingly no quite so awesome as the first.
This catastrophic collapse is primarily the result of the heresy of Modernism, which has seeped into the Church's blood stream like AIDs, sapping her vitality and reducing her to a shadow of her former self.
Since Vatican II, with one or two honourable exceptions, Western sees have been filled by Rome with dreary, vacuous, bog-standard Modernists. Under the leadership of these men, Christ Body in the British Isles, and elsewhere, has simply haemorrhaged away?
It is also no coincidence that the horribly sex-abuse scandals, mostly perpetrated by predatory sodomites, occurred on their watch.
To cure a disease, one must first understand it. In this booklet, Michael Davies uses his scholarship to lucidly expose the nature of this deadly virus in terms that all can understand. By Graham Moorhouse Chairman, PEEP
Paperback, size 8.25" x 5.75", 44 pages
"The synthesis of all heresies" - Pope St Pius X (Pascendi)
by Michael Davies
Developed from a lecture delivered to Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by the late Michael Davies.
Prior to Vatican II, 80% of young people leaving Catholic schools practised the faith, today, 3% do. The much vaunted New Pentecost is seemingly no quite so awesome as the first.
This catastrophic collapse is primarily the result of the heresy of Modernism, which has seeped into the Church's blood stream like AIDs, sapping her vitality and reducing her to a shadow of her former self.
Since Vatican II, with one or two honourable exceptions, Western sees have been filled by Rome with dreary, vacuous, bog-standard Modernists. Under the leadership of these men, Christ Body in the British Isles, and elsewhere, has simply haemorrhaged away?
It is also no coincidence that the horribly sex-abuse scandals, mostly perpetrated by predatory sodomites, occurred on their watch.
To cure a disease, one must first understand it. In this booklet, Michael Davies uses his scholarship to lucidly expose the nature of this deadly virus in terms that all can understand. By Graham Moorhouse Chairman, PEEP
Paperback, size 8.25" x 5.75", 44 pages
"The synthesis of all heresies" - Pope St Pius X (Pascendi)
The Gods of Atheism
The Gods of Atheism
by Fr Vincent Miceli, S.J.
When He chiseled the Ten Commandments in stone, God did not write “Thou shalt not be an atheist.” Instead, He commanded: “Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.” Why? Because man is incurably God-centered. He cannot exist without a god, and if he rejects the true God, he will invariably create his own false god.
Fr. Vincent Miceli breaks new ground in this fascinating analysis of seventeen Enlightenment theologians and philosophers who contributed to the rise of atheism. He explores their efforts and unfortunate successes in convincing mankind to deny the existence of God, and he brilliantly demonstrates how atheism has succeeded by creating mythical gods to stand in the place of the true God. What Fr. Miceli shows over and over is that each tenet of atheism doesn't deny the existence of a Higher Power; it simply replaces the true Power with a false power.
Fr. Miceli will help you spot those “practical atheists” of our day — those who, despite calling themselves Christians, actively water down Christianity and narcissistically reduce God to a reflection of their own personal desires.
You'll also learn how the devil tempts us against the Faith and how this leads to infidelity and eventually to habitual denials of God. Fr. Miceli gives important examples, such as how Feuerbach's overthrowing of the transcendent set the stage for the communist theories of Marx and Engels and how the influence of philosophers such as Camus, who disregarded prayer and repentance, has corrupted man's understanding of social justice.
There is no better book than The Gods of Atheism to help you understand how and why our society has fallen into such a state of religious indifference and corruption — and how to navigate, and even thrive in, this post-Christian culture with unwavering faith in the one true God.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 464 pages
by Fr Vincent Miceli, S.J.
When He chiseled the Ten Commandments in stone, God did not write “Thou shalt not be an atheist.” Instead, He commanded: “Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.” Why? Because man is incurably God-centered. He cannot exist without a god, and if he rejects the true God, he will invariably create his own false god.
Fr. Vincent Miceli breaks new ground in this fascinating analysis of seventeen Enlightenment theologians and philosophers who contributed to the rise of atheism. He explores their efforts and unfortunate successes in convincing mankind to deny the existence of God, and he brilliantly demonstrates how atheism has succeeded by creating mythical gods to stand in the place of the true God. What Fr. Miceli shows over and over is that each tenet of atheism doesn't deny the existence of a Higher Power; it simply replaces the true Power with a false power.
Fr. Miceli will help you spot those “practical atheists” of our day — those who, despite calling themselves Christians, actively water down Christianity and narcissistically reduce God to a reflection of their own personal desires.
You'll also learn how the devil tempts us against the Faith and how this leads to infidelity and eventually to habitual denials of God. Fr. Miceli gives important examples, such as how Feuerbach's overthrowing of the transcendent set the stage for the communist theories of Marx and Engels and how the influence of philosophers such as Camus, who disregarded prayer and repentance, has corrupted man's understanding of social justice.
There is no better book than The Gods of Atheism to help you understand how and why our society has fallen into such a state of religious indifference and corruption — and how to navigate, and even thrive in, this post-Christian culture with unwavering faith in the one true God.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 464 pages
A Light in the Heavens
' Prophesied as "A light in the heavens." 30 of his greatest encyclicals: Freemasonry, Christian Marriage, etc. Reads like chapters of one mighty book! Sheds the light of Faith on virtually all major problems we face today. Belongs in every Catholic home. 580pp, softcover, Impr. '
The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII
The Crisis Of Civilization
The Crisis Of Civilization
by Hilaire Belloc
Catholicism formed Western civlisation, from the Christianised Roman Empire and after; but our civilisation, since the Protestant Reformation, has been coming apart because of the false religious and social doctrine we live under, and only a return to the True Faith will save it.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 208 pages
by Hilaire Belloc
Catholicism formed Western civlisation, from the Christianised Roman Empire and after; but our civilisation, since the Protestant Reformation, has been coming apart because of the false religious and social doctrine we live under, and only a return to the True Faith will save it.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 208 pages
Don't Hate Your Job
Don't Hate Your Job
A Story of Christ, Yourself, and Your Job
by Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S.J.
About how a young man, in line to be a surgeon, is forced to quit medical school when his father suffers an untimely death. He hates his job until a walk with a priest makes him think. The story goes on to show that even Jesus, the divine physician, was a hard-working carpenter. “Whatever my job, it’s a good job. Christ the carpenter, help me to do my job as well as you did yours.”
Booklet, size 8.5" x 4.75", 32 page, Impr 1941
A Story of Christ, Yourself, and Your Job
by Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S.J.
About how a young man, in line to be a surgeon, is forced to quit medical school when his father suffers an untimely death. He hates his job until a walk with a priest makes him think. The story goes on to show that even Jesus, the divine physician, was a hard-working carpenter. “Whatever my job, it’s a good job. Christ the carpenter, help me to do my job as well as you did yours.”
Booklet, size 8.5" x 4.75", 32 page, Impr 1941
A Story of Christ, Yourself and Your Job
The Church and the Usurers
The Church and the Usurers
Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
by Brian M McCall
Dr. Brian McCall, a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, a contributor to The Angelus, Catholic Family News, and The Remnant, in addition to other journals, as well as a speaker at our 2011 Conference for Catholic Tradition on the Kingship of Christ, has released this truly important work.
The fruit of years of study and work, The Church and the Usurers considers the question of usury and its application to the modern age. The book looks at this subject in light of Sacred Scripture, Aristotelian philosophy, and the constant and decisive teachings of the Church. Those inclined to dismiss the Church's teaching as outdated, or somehow changed will be in for a shock.
If you thought the Church's teaching on usury had changed, then you need to read this book.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 205 pages
Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
by Brian M McCall
Dr. Brian McCall, a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, a contributor to The Angelus, Catholic Family News, and The Remnant, in addition to other journals, as well as a speaker at our 2011 Conference for Catholic Tradition on the Kingship of Christ, has released this truly important work.
The fruit of years of study and work, The Church and the Usurers considers the question of usury and its application to the modern age. The book looks at this subject in light of Sacred Scripture, Aristotelian philosophy, and the constant and decisive teachings of the Church. Those inclined to dismiss the Church's teaching as outdated, or somehow changed will be in for a shock.
If you thought the Church's teaching on usury had changed, then you need to read this book.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 205 pages
Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
The Outline of Sanity
The Outline of Sanity
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton explains that the medieval, European peasantry is the standard by which we should measure our progress in giving back to man the dignity proper to him as a human being and a creature of God.
The peasantry, for Chesterton, represents an ideal of sanity applicable to our own time. It possessed qualities which are needed more than ever today to repair our weakening social fabric: closeness to nature and to God; resourcefulness and independence; self-reliance, nobility, and dignity; consciousness of tradition and respect for it.
Paperback, size 9" x 5.9", 183 pages
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton explains that the medieval, European peasantry is the standard by which we should measure our progress in giving back to man the dignity proper to him as a human being and a creature of God.
The peasantry, for Chesterton, represents an ideal of sanity applicable to our own time. It possessed qualities which are needed more than ever today to repair our weakening social fabric: closeness to nature and to God; resourcefulness and independence; self-reliance, nobility, and dignity; consciousness of tradition and respect for it.
Paperback, size 9" x 5.9", 183 pages
Utopia of Usurers
Utopia of Usurers
by G.K. Chesterton
A collection of over two dozen of Chesterton's most readable essays on what Capitalism is, and how bad it is, in both precise and readable terms. He cuts to the core, and tears away polite illusions and pathetic excuses, demonstrating that modern Capitalism stands condemned not only by the Catholic Faith but by every sane view of the world. Not for the ideologically squeamish.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 133 pages
by G.K. Chesterton
A collection of over two dozen of Chesterton's most readable essays on what Capitalism is, and how bad it is, in both precise and readable terms. He cuts to the core, and tears away polite illusions and pathetic excuses, demonstrating that modern Capitalism stands condemned not only by the Catholic Faith but by every sane view of the world. Not for the ideologically squeamish.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 133 pages
Essays of a Catholic
Essays of a Catholic
by Hilaire Belloc
Belloc turns his powerful mind, erudition, robust common sense and supreme confidence in the Catholic Faith to a host of topics, including The New Paganism, Legend, Usury, The Schools, The Two Cultures of the West, The Catholic Church and The Modern State, etc. Belloc predicted and explains the chaos we now witness.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 245 pages
by Hilaire Belloc
Belloc turns his powerful mind, erudition, robust common sense and supreme confidence in the Catholic Faith to a host of topics, including The New Paganism, Legend, Usury, The Schools, The Two Cultures of the West, The Catholic Church and The Modern State, etc. Belloc predicted and explains the chaos we now witness.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 245 pages
To Build The City of God
To Build The City of God
Living as Catholics in a Secular Age
by Brian M. McCall
Is man an isolated, voluntaristic, autonomous individual, as modernity would have him? Or is he subject to natur"al, social, and transcendent orders? Much has been written since Rerum Novarum in 1891 on the general outlines of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, but what Catholics need today is a sure guide to how to live out these principles in their daily lives. To this end, Brian McCall’s To Build the City of God responds with chapters on marriage and the family, dress, education, profit and wealth, debt, politics in the age of Obama, and much more.
The modern world has erected a monstrous edifice on false principles, which, through its own intrinsic nihilism, is hollow to the core. Given time, it must collapse, and so with clarity and insight the author points the way for Catholics to live always under the reign of Christ; and to bring His kingship to a world increasingly desperate for the only Way that can truly bind us in temporal solidarity and transcendent communion.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 290 pages
Also available in Hardcover upon request (additional cost)
Living as Catholics in a Secular Age
by Brian M. McCall
Is man an isolated, voluntaristic, autonomous individual, as modernity would have him? Or is he subject to natur"al, social, and transcendent orders? Much has been written since Rerum Novarum in 1891 on the general outlines of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, but what Catholics need today is a sure guide to how to live out these principles in their daily lives. To this end, Brian McCall’s To Build the City of God responds with chapters on marriage and the family, dress, education, profit and wealth, debt, politics in the age of Obama, and much more.
The modern world has erected a monstrous edifice on false principles, which, through its own intrinsic nihilism, is hollow to the core. Given time, it must collapse, and so with clarity and insight the author points the way for Catholics to live always under the reign of Christ; and to bring His kingship to a world increasingly desperate for the only Way that can truly bind us in temporal solidarity and transcendent communion.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 290 pages
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Living as Catholics in a Secular Age
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Right and Reason
Right and Reason
Ethics in Theory and Practice
Based on the Teachings of Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas
by Fr Austin Fagothey, S.J.
Ethics both in theory and practice. Phrased in non-technical language, Right and Reason is a thoroughly competent book in the philosophy of Ethics, which gives the science of morality from the Aristotelian-Thomistic, common-sense school of thought--which is none other than the Perennial Philosophy of the Ages, the philosophy outside of which one's positions quickly become absurd and all reasoning ends up in dead-ends. Impr.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 627 pages
Ethics in Theory and Practice
Based on the Teachings of Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas
by Fr Austin Fagothey, S.J.
Ethics both in theory and practice. Phrased in non-technical language, Right and Reason is a thoroughly competent book in the philosophy of Ethics, which gives the science of morality from the Aristotelian-Thomistic, common-sense school of thought--which is none other than the Perennial Philosophy of the Ages, the philosophy outside of which one's positions quickly become absurd and all reasoning ends up in dead-ends. Impr.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 627 pages
Ethics in Theory and Practice
The Free Press
The Free Press
by Hilaire Belloc
The media's manipulation of thought among the masses, which Belloc warned about in 1917, has grown exponentially since. Nevertheless, he believed that the free press, no matter how hampered by the enemy, would attract influential thinkers. Its writers will be more eloquent, for they shall have a cause that is not enslaved to money and its pathetic and corrosive cancer of the soul commonly known as mediocrity.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 96 pages
by Hilaire Belloc
The media's manipulation of thought among the masses, which Belloc warned about in 1917, has grown exponentially since. Nevertheless, he believed that the free press, no matter how hampered by the enemy, would attract influential thinkers. Its writers will be more eloquent, for they shall have a cause that is not enslaved to money and its pathetic and corrosive cancer of the soul commonly known as mediocrity.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 96 pages
An essay on the manipulation of news and opinion, and how to counter it.
The Workingman's Guild of the Middle Ages
The Workingman's Guild of the Middle Ages
by Professor Godefroid Kurth, C.S.G.
translated by Fr Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp
Godefroid Kurth, C.S.G., was born at Arlon, Belgium, May 11th, 1847, and died at Assche, Brabant, January 4th, 1916. He was a Professor at the State University of Liege from 1872 to 1906, and then Director of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome from 1906 to 1916. He was Secretary of the Royal Historical Commission and Member of: The Academy of the Catholic Religion (Rome); the Royal Society of Literature (London); the Royal Academy of Belgium and various other learned societies.
This short essay on the workingman’s guilds by Professor Kurth was translated into English by Father Denis Fahey, who also wrote the introduction included here. The introduction is longer than the article since it introduces briefly the entire plan for a Christian social order, of which the economic life of the laboring man is only a portion.
When speaking of the economic life of a Christian society the most important principle to consider is that it—the economic life of society— must be subject to the moral law before all else. This subjection must be the first principle of the structure of society’s economic life and not simply something engrafted as an afterthought. Both politics and economics are disciplines subsidiary to the science of ethics. Without this subjection nations become ensnared by the terrible modern errors known as capitalism, communism, or socialism, all of which amount to the same thing, the destruction of the society operated according to their principles, and the end of Christian civilization.
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.5, 64 pages
by Professor Godefroid Kurth, C.S.G.
translated by Fr Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp
Godefroid Kurth, C.S.G., was born at Arlon, Belgium, May 11th, 1847, and died at Assche, Brabant, January 4th, 1916. He was a Professor at the State University of Liege from 1872 to 1906, and then Director of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome from 1906 to 1916. He was Secretary of the Royal Historical Commission and Member of: The Academy of the Catholic Religion (Rome); the Royal Society of Literature (London); the Royal Academy of Belgium and various other learned societies.
This short essay on the workingman’s guilds by Professor Kurth was translated into English by Father Denis Fahey, who also wrote the introduction included here. The introduction is longer than the article since it introduces briefly the entire plan for a Christian social order, of which the economic life of the laboring man is only a portion.
When speaking of the economic life of a Christian society the most important principle to consider is that it—the economic life of society— must be subject to the moral law before all else. This subjection must be the first principle of the structure of society’s economic life and not simply something engrafted as an afterthought. Both politics and economics are disciplines subsidiary to the science of ethics. Without this subjection nations become ensnared by the terrible modern errors known as capitalism, communism, or socialism, all of which amount to the same thing, the destruction of the society operated according to their principles, and the end of Christian civilization.
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.5, 64 pages
Conflicting Moral Standards
Conflicting Moral Standards
by Rev. Vincent Holden, C.S.P.
Father Holden explains that we have units of standard in weights and measure and without these standards there would be chaos in the market place; he goes on to explain that in a similar way we must have standards of morality - and who will set those standards. “Against that eternal code of Almighty God we measure our actions. Explains why mankind cannot change the moral standard to fit changing times. Thought provoking!
Booklet, 28 page, Impr, 1951
by Rev. Vincent Holden, C.S.P.
Father Holden explains that we have units of standard in weights and measure and without these standards there would be chaos in the market place; he goes on to explain that in a similar way we must have standards of morality - and who will set those standards. “Against that eternal code of Almighty God we measure our actions. Explains why mankind cannot change the moral standard to fit changing times. Thought provoking!
Booklet, 28 page, Impr, 1951
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Liberty, the god that failed
What has gone wrong with the grand American experiment in “ordered liberty”? The liberal’s answer is that America has failed to live up to its full promise of inclusiveness and equality—likely the result of corporate greed and white male ruling elites. The mainstream conservative or libertarian’s reply points to the Warren Court, the 1960’s, a denial of “states’ rights”, or a loss of Constitutional rectitude. Christopher Ferrara, in Liberty, the God That Failed, offers an entirely different answer. In a counter-narrative of unique power and scope, he unmasks the order promised as a sham; the liberty guaranteed, a chimera. In his telling, the false god of a new political order—Liberty—was born in thought long before America’s founding, and gained increasing devotion as it slowly amassed power during the first two centuries of the nation’s existence. Today it reveals its full might, as we bear the weight of its oppressive decrees, and experience the emptiness of the secular order it imposes upon us. To many of the West’s cultured despisers, religion as personal motive and social force is inextricably bound up with violence. In the tale modernity tells itself, the secular state saved the West from the depredations of religion, and thereby sowed fertile ground for the boundless achievements of liberal modernity. This myth is tenacious, its unmasking a long, continuous struggle, for the secular state has constructed this story to mask its own violent origins and ongoing displays of force. Ferrara destroys this myth with a relentless uncovering of truths hidden by both liberal and conservative/libertarian accounts of what has gone wrong. In this brilliant retelling of American history and political life, the author asks us to open our eyes to harsh realities, but also to the possibilities for a rightly ordered society and the true liberty that can still be ours. To read this book is never to think about the modern West and American history in the same way again
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