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An avowed and open defence of Distributism is not often seen in the Catholic press, and yet there is in this country a larger number than ever before of convinced distributists, people convinced that our attempt to concentrate on the mass-production of secondary commodities in return for food from abroad, to remain the workshop—or at least one of the workshops—of the world, and to treat the world as our farm and garden is doomed to failure—and indeed to disaster. The time is ripe, then, for a re-examination of distributism as a Catholic thing; but beforehand it will be worth while to look at some recent developments in the non-Catholic sphere. For the situation is very different from the time, forty years ago, when distributists might have been confused with the more or less unpractical followers of William Morris, broadly labelled ‘arts and crafts’. The situation is even very different from that of ten years ago. The theory and application of distributism have not changed but the situation of this country has changed so as to reveal not only the practical nature of this social idea but the necessity of it.
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1 They issue an Annual Report. Cf. also The Crafts Centre of Great Britain (3 Central Buildings, Matthew Parker Street, London, S.W.I.)
2 I must mention here the remarkable achievement of the Weekly Review, to which journal Douglas Hyde directly attributes his conversion.
3 It is worth mentioning that the Church in America has its own paper for the practical countryman—The Church and the Farmer (Rt Rev. Ligutti, Granger, Iowa, U.S.A.), the official publication of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.
4 It is stated that Fr Tigar is prepared to show the composting to members of the Foundation by appointment.
5 Rerum Novarum, or The Workers’ Charter, published by the Catholic Social Guild. Oxford (1946 edition).
6 Plus XII's Pentecostal Sermon. This and the following translations are taken from those of Walter Shewring which appeared in The Cross and the Plough. This appeared in the issue for June, 1944.
7 From the letter to the President of the 24th session of the Canadian ‘Social Weeks’ held at Rimouski Cross and Plough, Ladyday 1948.
8 Discourse to the National Congress of Italian Christian Craftsmen, Rome, October 1947. Cross and Plough, Ladyday 1948.