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G. K. Chesterton
By: Mackey, Aidan
The perfect pocket introduction to the life, wit, and wisdom of English Catholicism's premier 20th-century prophet, poet, and pundit, by the world's greatest living Chestertonian.
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Nazareth or Social Chaos
The second of McNabb's primary works of social philosophy and cultural criticism. The McNabbian theme of the contrast between the brutal, insane, hyper-mechanized and over-industrialized "modern" world, and the sanity, naturalness, wisdom, peace, and humility of Nazareth as the setting for the Incarnation comes through with typically inspiring, enlightening persuasive power.
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Studies in the Catholic Social Movement
An intriguing and eye-opening sketch of the sincere activism of last century's Social Catholics. Dealing with just five countries of numerous more than that which witnessed a vigorous Catholic social movement, Somerville's text provides a useful, first-hand and contemporary sketch of a portion of Catholicism's long history of temporal struggle for social justice.
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Social Justice
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The words in this calendar could easily change the way you look at your everyday life. Hear the Church on social justice, see the fruits of justice throughout the world, one week at a time.
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The Death of Christian Culture
Senior's well-known and popular treatise is a first-rate scholarly and impassioned expose, linking up the causes of cultural decline, ignorance, and decay across the disciplines of literature, music, and the liberal arts. Senior diagnoses the rot in our culture and provides, in the clearest and most profound terms, a candid and frank assessment.
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The Restoration of Christian Culture
Senior's sequel to his well-known and popular Death of Christian Culture -- fittingly entitled the Restoration -- examines a few of the elements essential for understanding in aiming towards a restoration of the culture of the West bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome and nurtured by the Church. His prose is characteristically excellent and his judgements sharp and critical.
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The Medieval Future of Arthur Joseph Penty
The first new biographical sketch of the life, work, and ideas of the 20th-century's greatest exponent of medieval-style regulative guilds. Penty is a little-known and even less-appreciated figure in the history of British political thought, and Dr. Grosvenor remedies this neglect with his new text on the thought of A. J. Penty, medievalist, architect, guildsman, and Distributist.
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The Last of the Realists
By: Robbins, Harold
A new biography of Chesterton, never before published in book form. The Last of the Realists tells the Distributist parts of the G. K. C. story - negelected, parodied, or excused by most of Chesterton's biographers - from the perspective of a leading Distributist contemporary of Chesterton, who worked with him in one of the most active branches of the English Distributist League.
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Distributist Perspectives (Vol 2)
By: Sayers, Dorothy
A follow-up to the first volume in the series, this second installment collects the work of the lesser-known Distributists -- Hilary Pepler, Jorian Jenks, Philip Hagreen, Viscount Lymington, Dorothy Sayers, and others -- and presents their compelling and profound social insights into a modern world desperately seeking solutions to the problems of secularization and industrialization.
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Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
By: Blum, Christopher O., Ph.D.
Obliterating the notion that there are only two choices - right and left - for perspectives on social and economic life, this apologia by twelve Catholics for a socio-economic life based upon the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church offers an outline of independent operator-owners, regulative guilds, and economic science subordinated to morality and the genuine needs of mankind.
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The Party System
A frontal assault on the flaws in the theory and practice of modern democracy. The authors are in favor of representation in government but make a convincing case that the system of modern democracy actually prohibits true representation.
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The Church at the Turning Points of History
A remarkable survey of the ability of the Catholic Church to surmount crises posed by civil society while maintaining its nature unchanged. Kurth, a leading Belgian historian of the late 19th and early 20th century, condenses 2,000 years of peace, turbulence, and resolve into a fast-paced, afternoon read.
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neo-Conned! Again
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This volume looks at politics, law, history, the media, military, intelligence and more relating to the war in Iraq, featurig experts from left, right, and center. It examines the “war on terror” and Christian Zionism, and assesses current Iraqi politics, the occupation, and the insurgency. With its companion volume it represents the best in moral, social, and political analysis of the war in Iraq.
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neo-Conned!
Neo-CONNED! examines the true just-war doctrine, to refute the Novak-Weigel thesis on the war’s justness; presents true “conservatives” (Buchanan, Francis, Sobran, Fleming, et al) who prove the war is anything but just; and features an eye-opening interview with the late Jude Wanniski on the history of U.S.-Iraq relations and the damage caused by U.S. policy.
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Daniel Mannix
The life and wit of Archbishop Daniel Mannix, the most influential and controversial clergyman in Australian history, is captured in this biography. It looks at his spiritual leadership and major areas of public engagement, from World War I conscription and Irish nationalism to the famous Labour Party split of the 1950s, and offers dozens of the Archbishop's insightful observations.
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Saint George
By: Cooney, Anthony
A compelling historical novel about England’s patron, and an evocative picture of 3rd-century Christianity and Roman life in general.
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The Guild State
By: Taylor, G. R. S.
A compact and compelling look at the medieval guild and the political theory underlying it as a solution to the problem of capital and labor, and the tension between economic cooperation and competition. It is an inspiring call to solve current economic ills like unemployment, absentee ownership, and employee disfranchisement, in light of the Faith and the economic vision it inspired.
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The Servile State
By: Belloc, Hilaire
The prophetic masterpiece of Catholic socio-political thought by one of England's greatest Catholic essayists. Belloc argues that the internal dynamic of "free-market" capitalism is inherently unstable, and will resolve itself by leading either to the diffusion of property in Distributism or to its stable concentration in a "servile state" of wage slavery and state-sponsored capitalism.
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The Rural Solution
Msgr. Richard Williamson, Dr. Peter Chojnowski, Christopher McCann, and Integrity Magazine authors discuss the value of a return to the health and sanity of rural life. Offers neither escapism nor utopia, but a profound and real alternative to mass culture and suburbia based on the centrality of agriculture to social life and its benefits to the family.
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Socialism and Christianity
By: Taylor, Gary
The Church Socialist League believed that Christians should be at the forefront of any effort to improve the lot of working people. Illustrating the widely varying meaning of “socialism” at the time, this history looks at the ideological background of several chief Distributists, illustrating that the 1900's English “socialist” movement was not a monolithic campaign for statist bureaucracy.
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Orage and the New Age
By: Taylor, Gary
The New Age was at the center of Edwardian-era political thought, featuring articles by Distributists and Guildsmen such as G. R. S. Taylor, A. J. Penty, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc. Taylor examines the impact of editor A. R. Orage upon the paper, and sketches diverse aspects of the social movement in England during the pre- and post-WWI period.
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G D H Cole and the National Guilds League
By: Taylor, Gary
Essential background to the Catholic movement of Penty and his “regulative” guilds, Dr. Taylor's volume traces the thought of G. D. H. Cole and his role in the origins, formation, and development of the influential National Guilds League. It also studies the relationship between the National Guilds movement and the widely varying labor movement in early-20th-century England.
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Economics for Helen
By: Belloc, Hilaire
A compact and useful primer on economic concepts by one of the English-speaking Catholic world's greatest 20th-century commentators. Belloc cuts through the jargon of modern "orthodox" economics - so often a mask for pure social Darwinism - and offers a sane, human, and Catholic alternative.
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Richelieu
By: Belloc, Hilaire
A masterful sketch of the life of Cardinal Richelieu of France, masterful statesman and creator of modern Europe. Belloc is the Catholic historian par excellence, who sketches Richelieu’s career in light of the Faith which is the measure of all things.
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Dollfuss
A critical biography of the man who ruled Austria for two years (1932–1934) and attempted to build its politico-economic structure upon the Social Doctrine of the Church, as explained in Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno.
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Ethics and the National Economy
An introduction to the Catholic way of thinking about economics, by one of the greatest of Catholic economists. This profound but easily read text covers the purpose of the economy, just prices, exchange, wages, and more. Also deals with the errors of individualism and laissez-faire. Heinrich Pesch, S.J. (1854–1926), was a great philosopher-economist. His “Solidarism,” introduced concisely and accessibly in this volume, is based upon the classical and Christian understanding of man and socio-economic life, rooted in the teaching of Aristotle and perfected by St. Thomas Aquinas.
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An Essay on the Economic Effects of the Reformation
Was the world always irreparably divided between the dead-end poles of Left vs. Right, Capitalist vs. Communist? Or was there in our Western past an integral and harmonious social and political—no less than religious—creed? In this concise but persuasive essay, Dr. O’Brien says there was. And that such a creed can be recovered, with the restoration of the social philosophy that once inspired it.
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A Miscellany of Men
A perfect introduction to the thought of the Distributist movement, this book features authors including Bishop James Dey, Fr. Vincent McNabb, Harold Robbins, Cdr. Herbert Shove, and Reginald Jebb in essays addressing themes such as the “colonization” of the land by families and the restoration of the crafts.
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Flee to the Fields
A perfect introduction to the thought of the Distributist movement, this book features authors including Bishop James Dey, Fr. Vincent McNabb, Harold Robbins, Cdr. Herbert Shove, and Reginald Jebb in essays addressing themes such as the “colonization” of the land by families and the restoration of the crafts.
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The Gauntlet
By: Penty, Arthur J.
Featuring selections from four of Penty’s books, this, his first-ever anthology, deals in various ways with a single, crucially important issue: the restoration of morality to economic life.
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Twelve Types
A collection of biographical essays that evaluate the place of Tolstoy, St. Francis, Savonarola, William Morris, and others in the history of the West. Chesterton’s Catholic and humane perspectives on these figures provide modern readers with armament for the “culture wars.”
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Irish Impressions
In Irish Impressions, familiar Chestertonian themes – distribution of property, industrialism, the Faith, and Christian society – are discussed in the context of Ireland’s struggle for national and cultural independence from the Britain of the early 1900s.
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Utopia of Usurers
Utopia is Chesterton at his energetic and boisterous best, taking on the economic and cultural apostles of modern industrial capitalism. A collection of articles written from 1913–1915 for the Daily Herald, Utopia is a full-scale broadside against the folly of modern economic and cultural life, in the name of humanity, sanity, justice, and charity.
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An Essay on the Restoration of Property
By: Belloc, Hilaire
Belloc’s most famous Distributist tract: a clear, concise, and straightforward sketch of how a society of real property owners might be re-established and defended. It was not so long ago that men possessed real property and therefore real freedom to control their own destiny. It is possible again; Belloc’s sketch is just one of many possible glimpses of what such a situation might look like.
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The Free Press
By: Belloc, Hilaire
The Free Press is the only work of its kind: a critique and analysis of the modern Media from a coherent, Catholic perspective. In this essay Belloc critiques the evil influence of a Media that manipulates, controls, and suppresses news and opinion; and he offers a surprisingly relevant apologia for a Free Press.
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The Outline of Sanity
A lively and commonsense – but rigorous – examination of how both capitalism and socialism work in the real world. GKC considers their effect on families, homes, and men as if “economics” still has something to do with households. The Outline is an introduction to an alternative perspective, offering a vision of an economic order which, rather than dominating man, serves him.
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Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism
One of the most scholarly and comprehensive treatments of the antagonism between Catholic doctrine and the capitalist spirit, it provides a convincing answer to the propaganda which suggests that the world is necessarily divided into two camps, the capitalist and socialist. Includes a comprehensive Publisher’s Preface on the Social Doctrine and the Italian Social Catholic Movement.
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Charles I
By: Belloc, Hilaire
Charles I defended the Crown against the Money Power of Capitalism and the Reformation. A story of intrigue and determination, told by one of England’s master storytellers.
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Charles II
By: Belloc, Hilaire
Charles II’s reign was intended to be “toothless,” but he had other plans. Belloc’s gripping story of his life details his valiant national struggle.
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The Church and the Land
In more than 40 short essays, the de facto “chaplain” of the Distributist movement tackles subjects as diverse and yet unified as industrialism, morality and economics, working conditions, and the role of the state in shaping and defending viable economic conditions.
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Action
By: Ousset, Jean
Action is a manual for the modern Catholic Crusader by one of the late 20th century’s most respected and knowledgeable Catholic laymen. Thorough, engaging, and practical, it will inspire, motivate, and guide the modern Catholic layman in understanding and performing his duty to fight, with every available and lawful means, for the implementation of Catholic principles in society.
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Distributist Perspectives (Vol I)
By: Penty, Arthur J.
A critical biography of the man who ruled Austria for two years (1932–1934) and attempted to build its politico-economic structure upon the Social Doctrine of the Church, as explained in Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno.
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