The Just Third Way

From 1824 to 1826, William Cobbett (1763-1835), whom G.K. Chesterton and others consider “the Apostle of Distributism,” published segments o...

Today’s blog posting is adapted from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or Barn...

In the previous posting on this subject , we noted that Ebenezer Scrooge, the, er, hero (or maybe “victim”?) of Charles Dickens’s 1843 story...

In the previous posting on this subject , we went into the various ways that popes prior to Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum ...

What with the “canonization” of John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) coming up in a couple of weeks, we thought we ...

Word has just come down the pike that the canonization of John Henry Newman has been set for October 13, 2019.   We sa...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , Robert Owen believed that all of humanity’s problems would disappear if religion, marr...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , Robert Owen, the Father of Modern Socialism (and Communism) wante...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , modern socialism (which includes Marxist communism) traces its roots to the thought of...

On Sunday, July 14, 1833 at Oxford University in England, the Reverend John Keble (1792-1866) ascended the University Pulpit and preached ...

According to R.W. Church, possibly the best (if not completely objective) historian of the Oxford Movement, the whole...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , with the publication of “Tract 90,” John Henry Newman inadvertently gave leverage to t...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , John Henry Newman’s goal when he published “Tract 90,” otherwise known as “Remarks on ...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , worried that the Church of England might return to orthodoxy and ...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , the adherents of the “democratic religion” of socialism — which a...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , John Henry Newman and the others of the Oxford Movement were confronted with something...

As we saw in the previous posting in this series , in the 1830s John Henry Newman and others in the Oxford Movement f...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , in the early nineteenth century traditional forms of Christianity were under assault fro...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , just as the Oxford Movement gained what many authorities consider its greatest triumph...

As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , the victory of orthodoxy (more or less) in the matter of the appo...