tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post5261141245287061885..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: 26 per cent of Brits support EU membership; 100 per cent of their political betters support itHilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-39926972645928177402011-11-02T16:41:14.797+01:002011-11-02T16:41:14.797+01:00There isn't going to be anything fresh until t...There isn't going to be anything fresh until the clock strikes CAESAR. - KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-51324614002991256312011-11-01T08:47:56.952+01:002011-11-01T08:47:56.952+01:00I'm not a fan of distributism. As I said, I do...I'm not a fan of distributism. As I said, I don't know the solution, and I think that competent secular economists would do well to look to other sources for their ideas. The Church has been putting this stuff out for more than a hundred years. Even on things not directly related to faith and morals, an institution with 2000 years of experience observing human nature and human history first hand might have something fresh to offer.hjwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-17553692963403404102011-11-01T04:30:47.867+01:002011-11-01T04:30:47.867+01:00It was tried in Portugal and Spain and it was a di...It was tried in Portugal and Spain and it was a disaster. Then again, one must consider the materials. - KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-61744722881044880492011-10-31T20:50:27.387+01:002011-10-31T20:50:27.387+01:00Miss White,
You might want to add a book or two b...Miss White,<br /><br />You might want to add a book or two by a particular Catholic historian to your reading list. The man is Thomas E. Woods, Jr., and the work most relevant to the specific topic you are discussing here, if you haven't already read it, is <i>The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Market</i>. I think you might well find it interesting.<br /><br /><i>Pax et bonum</i>,<br />Keith TöpferMartial Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679584221923893460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-54083677258248894002011-10-31T18:03:45.142+01:002011-10-31T18:03:45.142+01:00Excellent post. Even as I know some of these kid...Excellent post. Even as I know some of these kids down the street; more than a few are opportunistic anarchists and they have attracted a lot of sympathy from sympathetic people who ought to know better. <br /><br />Calls to mind the CDF's "Instruction on Liberation Theology" from 1985:<br /><br />http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19840806_theology-liberation_en.html<br /><br />18. The defenders of orthodoxy are sometimes accused of passivity, indulgence, or culpable complicity regarding the intolerable situations of injustice and the political regimes which prolong them. Spiritual conversion, the intensity of the love of God and neighbor, zeal for justice and peace, the Gospel meaning of the poor and of poverty, are required of everyone, and especially of pastors and those in positions of responsibility. The concern for the purity of the faith demands giving the answer of effective witness in the service of one's neighbor, the poor and the oppressed in particular, in an integral theological fashion. By the witness of their dynamic and constructive power to love, Christians will thus lay the foundations of this "civilization of love".... <br /><br />Thanks Hilary.<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com