"Justice, as well as Mercy, is an attribute to God Himself, and His Church is its Dispenser... And if Justice, then Social Justice." So begins Harold Robbins' essay on Catholic Social Teaching. With clarity and erudition Robbins draws from various sources in the Christian tradition to distill his principles, principles which were to serve as the foundation for the school of economic thought known as Distributism. The success of his effort was affirmed by none other than Dorothy Day, who claimed that The Sun of Justice "contains the best thinking ever done on Distributism." Originally published in 1938, this edition represents an effort to restore this long-lost treasure to contemporary audiences.

The Sun of Justice: An Essay on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church

ROBBINS, HAROLD

Religion & Spirituality

Agnus Dei Publishing

Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci was born March 2, 1810, and became Pope Leo XIII on February 20, 1878. His reign was one of the longest in history, during which he produced a total of eighty-six encyclicals—a record approached by no other pope before or since. Out of this immense canon, fifteen have been collected for this volume based on their social impact and doctrinal profundity. They cover subjects such as the proper relationship between church and state, the foundations of political authority, the study of Sacred Scripture, Christian philosophy, and Catholic Social Teaching, including Pope Leo's most famous social encyclical, Rerum Novarum. While all papal letters are timely in their own manner, these were chosen because they are, in the opinion of the publisher, most indispensable:-- Inscrutabili Dei Consilio, Aeterni Patris, Arcanum Divinae Sapientia, Diuturnum, Humanum Genus, Immortale Dei, Libertas, Exeunte Iam Anno, Sapientiae Christianae, Rerum Novarum, Providentissimus Deus, Satis Cognitum, Divinum Illud Munus, Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, Graves de Communi Re, Mirae Caritatis.

The Leonine Encyclicals: 1878-1902

Leo XIII, Pope

"You do not know why you kill me, but I know why I die: That your children may be better men than you."  These are the last words of Spanish political theorist Ramiro de Maeztu (1875-1936), spoken just before his murder during the Spanish Civil War. Having become disillusioned early in life with modern Enlightenment philosophy, he eventually rejected liberal political principles altogether ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity") as an insufficient basis for civilization. He saw what he called "the crisis of humanism," and he sought to answer this crisis by once again acknowledging man as a spiritual being:  "It has been said that the central ideas of the Middle Ages consisted in looking upon the world as a vale of tears, and upon man as 'I, a sinner.' That is why the Middle Ages have been accused of darkening the world and diminishing man…But that the world is a vale of tears, and that man is 'I, a sinner,' are not judgments characteristic of a given period of humanity. They must have been thought by men of all ages in consequence of that which really distinguishes man from all other beings on earth: the ideal of perfection in his soul." (Excerpt, Chapter 1)

Authority, Liberty and Function

Politics & Social Sciences

Maeztu, Ramiro De

Politics & Government

The primary object of this history is to relate the social problem to the experience of the past and so to help bring about a clearer comprehension of its nature. "The reason," says the author of Erewhon, "why we cannot see the future as plainly as the past is because we know too little of the actual past and the actual present. The future depends upon the present, and the present depends upon the past, and the past is unalterable." It is by studying the past in the light of the experience of the present and the present in the light of the past that we may attain to a fuller understanding both of the present and the past. Certain aspects of industrialism are new to the world, and the past offers us no ready-made solution for them, but to understand them it is necessary to be familiar with Mediaeval principles, for such Mediaeval problems as those of law and currency, of the State and the Guilds, lie behind industrialism and have determined its peculiar development. If we were more familiar with history we should see the problems of industrialism in a truer perspective and would have less disposition to evolve social theories from our inner consciousness. This neglect of the experience of the past is no new thing; it is as old as civilization itself. Thus in criticizing some of the fantastic proposals of Plato for the reorganization of Greek society, Aristotle says: "Let us remember that we should not disregard the experience of the ages; in the multitude of years, these things, if they were good, would certainly not have been unknown; for almost everything has been found out, although sometimes they are not put together; in other cases men do not use the knowledge that they have." [From the Preface]

A Guildsman's Interpretation of History

History

Penty, Arthur J.

World

"Liberalism is the dogmatic affirmation of the absolute independence of the individual and of the social reason. Catholicity is the dogma of the absolute subjection of the individual and of the social order to the revealed law of God. One doctrine is the exact antithesis of the other. They are opposites in direct conflict." (Excerpt from the book)This collection contains 10 encyclicals spanning the reigns of various popes, and one full-length book on the subject:LIBERALISM IS A SIN (Liberalismo es Pecado, Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany)ON LIBERALISM (Mirari Vos, Pope Gregory XVI)ON CURRENT ERRORS (Quanta Cura, Pope Pius IX)SYLLABUS OF ERRORS (Pope Pius IX)THE CHRISTIAN CONSTITUTION OF STATES (Immortale Dei, Pope Leo XIII)ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY (Pope Leo XIII)ON CAPITAL AND LABOR (Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII)SYLLABUS CONDEMNING THE ERRORS OF THE MODERNISTS (Lamentabili Sane, Pope Pius X) ON MODERNISM (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X)ON THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING (Quas Primas, Pope Pius XI)ON CERTAIN FALSE OPINIONS WHICH THREATEN TO UNDERMINE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE (Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII)

The Catholic Church Against Liberalism: Collected Writings

VARIOUS

Philosophy

As classroom reading material or for casual reference, this versatile text provides a comprehensive yet concise analysis of Catholic social doctrine, after the vision of Pope Francis:"We need to develop a new synthesis capable of overcoming the false arguments of recent centuries. Christianity, in fidelity to its own identity and the rich deposit of truth which it has received from Jesus Christ, continues to reflect on these issues in fruitful dialogue with changing historical situations. In doing so, it reveals its eternal newness." [from the encyclical letter Laudato Si']Pope Francis’ ground-breaking encyclical letter on the environment caught the attention of the world. Many observers were surprised to see the Catholic Church addressing such topics. Others perhaps wondered: what is an encyclical anyway?What Pope Francis’ latest major statement has also brought into public view is the long and powerful tradition of Catholic reflection on society and its arrangements—economic, political, social and now environmental—known as Catholic social teachings, the “unexploded dynamite of the Church,” as Catholic social activist Peter Maurin once put described them. In their modern form, these documents date from Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) and continue down through the papacies of St. John Paul II, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis.In answer to the pope's call for "a new synthesis" comes this highly accessible work. Author Daniel Schwindt also supplies a brief but succinct historical background for this remarkable and influential series of reflections on war and peace, social justice, economics and property, and much more.

Catholic Social Teaching: A New Synthesis (Rerum Novarum to Laudato Si')

Schwindt, Daniel

When still in print, Henri Grenier's manual of Thomism was widely used in seminaries and universities. Those discovering this work for the first time have described it as "the answer key" to St. Thomas Aquinas.Because of the importance of Thomistic philosophy, Grenier's multi-volume manual is being brought back into print. This is a re-print edition of the first edition set, so there are three volumes total:Volume I: Logic and Philosophy of NatureVolume II: MetaphysicsVolume III: Moral Philosophy

Thomistic Philosophy - Volume III: Moral Philosophy

Grenier, Henri

Religious Studies

When still in print, Henri Grenier's manual of Thomism was widely used in seminaries and universities. Those discovering this work for the first time have described it as "the answer key" to St. Thomas Aquinas.  Because of the importance of Thomistic philosophy, Grenier's multi-volume manual is being brought back into print. This is a re-print edition of the first edition set, so there are three volumes total:  Volume I: Logic and Philosophy of Nature  Volume II: Metaphysics  Volume III: Moral Philosophy

Thomistic Philosophy - Volume II: Metaphysics

When still in print, Henri Grenier's manual of Thomism was widely used in seminaries and universities. Those discovering this work for the first time have described it as "the answer key" to St. Thomas Aquinas. Because of the importance of Thomistic philosophy, Grenier's multi-volume manual is being brought back into print. This is a re-print edition of the first edition set, so there are three volumes total: Volume I: Logic and Philosophy of Nature Volume II: Metaphysics Volume III: Moral Philosophy

Thomistic Philosophy - Volume I: Logic and Philosophy of Nature

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