The Church and the Land: Including Rerum Novarum and On Rural Life

This powerful reader includes the vital work by Rev. Vincent McNabb regarding Distributism, seeking reform of economic life in the name of truly Catholic values. Fr. McNabb was England's famous Dominican Distributist who applied the fruits of his deep study of Saint Thomas Aquinas and his social principles to the real world. McNabb's work offers the Catholic vision of Man in Society to a world sorely in need of it: a return of man to the land and the family to its proper home. He elaborates on the vitality of living and working in the country. Catholics, take heed! Return to the land! McNabb's work, Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) by Leo XIII, and On Rural Life by Pope Pius XII represent the voice of the Church, with its characteristic concern for morality and the salvation of souls, in the economic mess that we are in today. We hope this work will influence Catholics to return to God’s plan, work the land, and help each other in charity and truth. Read more