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I have responded to the general problem the Back t...

2006-08-26T10:16:00.000-04:00

I have responded to the general problem the Back to the Land Movement is addressing at

The Catholic Colony

http://utregnetchristusiesus.blogspot.com/2006/08/catholic-colony.html

Dear Grafitto,You ask "So why, Brother, do the Dis...

2006-08-26T06:24:00.000-04:00

Dear Grafitto,

You ask "So why, Brother, do the Distributists, or Third Way proponents, try to make us feel that we are less than Catholic if we don't sign on to the "Back to the Land" mentality?"

I respond:

I don't know their motivation. But you must understand, that not everyone intellectually realizes the fundamentally different orientation of the truth Faith to

To the First Anonymous [Friday, August 25, 2006 11...

2006-08-26T06:19:00.000-04:00

To the First Anonymous [Friday, August 25, 2006 11:13:35 PM]:

"Capitalism" means two different things to most people in the West:

First it means the everyday experience they have of a free market economy. This being an experience is not something good or bad, since it prescinds from moral judgement.

Second, it means, a form of economic order, in which the entire

A piece filled with uncommon common sense. So why...

2006-08-26T00:42:00.000-04:00

A piece filled with uncommon common sense.

So why, Brother, do the Distributists, or Third Way proponents, try to make us feel that we are less than Catholic if we don't sign on to the "Back to the Land" mentality? Sharpe and his cohorts give the impression that Distributism is a doctrine of the Church!

As you know, people will not convert from a life of materialism unless

Thank you for succinctly describing a profound fla...

2006-08-26T00:00:00.000-04:00

Thank you for succinctly describing a profound flaw in that particular distributist's system. To suppose that a man without property is less than a complete human being is very much a parallel to the erroneous modernist notion that a celibate individual is somehow unfulfilled. An anti-clerical, naturalistic, materialistic, and economic vision is not for Catholics; what is needed is a

I liked your post and agree with you that John Sha...

2006-08-25T23:13:00.000-04:00

I liked your post and agree with you that John Sharpe is incorrect in saying that you must have property in order to be fulfilled. The only part of your summing up that I have a slight problem with is your equating Communism and Socialism with Capitalism. Capitalism is not imcompatible with Church teaching per se. The other two are. Correct?

Certainly I donot compare to such men. I have rea...

2006-08-22T13:47:00.000-04:00

Certainly I donot compare to such men. I have read some of the latter at length, but only a little of the former. They are certainly both worth reading and having in your private libary.

You remind me very much, especially in this partic...

2006-08-22T12:50:00.000-04:00

You remind me very much, especially in this particular posting, of my readings (which said readings have very much formed my knowledge of Catholic social teachings and morality) in two apologetic masters: to wit, Fr. Denis Fahey and the great Frank Sheed. I know you must be familiar with them, are you not?
(No one else on these blogs seems to acknowledge them every time I cite or recommend