The Mystical Body of Christ and The Reorganization of Society

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[Flyleaf:] "'IN this book, as in 'The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World', I have treated at some length of the organized opposition to Our Lord Jesus Christ and to His work of permeating the world with the influence of the Supernatural Life of the Blessed Trinity. It is certainly true that it is in great measure because Catholics fail to live fully as members of Christ that Our Lord’s enemies succeed in their designs. But it is also true that Catholics succumb to the machinations of Our Lord’s enemies largely because they are not trained for the real struggle in the world. They leave school without adequate knowledge of the organized opposition they will have to meet and with their minds hazy about the points of social organization for which they must stand and against which attacks are being directed. Thus they display a lamentable lack of cohesion, with the result that Catholics who stand for integral Christianity can always count on finding other Catholics in the service of the enemy. 'Many times,' wrote Pope Pius XI in the Encyclical Letter, "Divini Redemptoris", 'Our paternal heart has been saddened by the divergencies. . . . which array in opposing camps the Sons of the same Mother Church. Thus it is that the revolutionaries, who are not very numerous. . . . end by pitting Catholics one against the other.'" // "Satan will favour the continuance of a monetary system which insists upon the destruction of food and other necessaries of life, in spite of widespread poverty, in order to keep up prices and thus make sure of the 'interest' levied on the creation of money. One of the ablest of the writers who have exposed the evils of the existent monetary system, Professor F. Soddy, has shown the disastrous consequences of this policy for human society. He writes: 'In our day it is not the agitator fomenting class-hatred who can start . . . . a revolution. But empty milk into the Potomac; import pests to destroy the cotton crop; burn wheat and coffee as fuel; restrict the production of rubber; set up tariff-barriers; permit trusts, federations, cartels and lock-outs; allow trade-unions to develop ca’canny methods to reduce output; maintain misery, insecurity and idleness, masses of unemployed who are not allowed to better their lot by making the very things of which they stand in need; and revolution in some form is not probable, but certain. The ideas that govern men are outraged. Instead of a few striking illustrations of incompetence or worse, they begin to see universal chaos instead of order. Their institutions, so far from protecting them in their peaceful avocations on which they rely for a livelihood, appear leagued together to keep them in . . . . unnecessary servitude and dependence.' " // "It is an extraordinary fact that the Germans and the English, though at war at the time, collaborated in the work of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The Germans dispatched Lenin and his followers from Switzerland to Russia, and the English liberated Trotsky from Halifax (Nova Scotia), after he and his band of East-side Jewish desperadoes had been arrested on the high seas by the British Fleet, on their way from New York to Russia. The interest of Germany in the collapse of Russia is quite clear, but why did the English assist in accomplishing the ruin of an allied power which had faithfully served the common cause?" // "The return to the Gold Standard took place in 1925 and the taxpayers had to sell two sheep instead of one, in order to pay the interest, though the nominal figures of the Debt and of the interest were not changed. This certainly seems to be usurious, and it accompanies all the 'booms' and 'slumps' or inflations and deflations that are part af the normal functioning of the Gold Standard. The consequences of declining prices are business failures, unemployment and wholesale foreclosures with inevitable increasing financial control." // "The fertility of money must be maintained, even if it leads to the sterility of the human race. The Central Bankers will doubtless be ready to oblige by lending money to the State to erect Birth-prevention clinics alongside the Banks in every important street. As the English taxpayers are still paying interest on the money borrowed by the English Government to finance the war that ended with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the gradually diminishing population will in all probability still be looking for money to pay the interest on this other loan, when the Archangel Gabriel will summon the last of them, along with the financiers, to listen to the full truth about the order of the world." // " 'The formation of vast industrial trusts began in 1872. . . . To-day there are 450 to 500 trusts, with an aggregate capitalisation, including the railroad and other franchise trusts, of something like 20,000 million dollars. And still more trusts are forming. . . . They are reaching out after the land. They are establishing international relationships aiming to monopolise the globe in their lines of business. And they are joining hands with each other. . . . On the whole the situation seems to be this: The railways and other big franchise monopolies are coordinating with the great commercial combines into a gigantic machine controlled by a few financiers and created to manufacture or capture profit for them. Events are moving towards a consolidation of interests that will give a handful of capitalists practically imperial power through the vastness of their industrial dominions.' " The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society - Front Dustwrapper Binding Strip Flyleaf - Front Half-title Title Page Censors' authorisation Dedication Preface Table of Contents PART I. The Mystical Body Of Christ And The Divine Plan For Order 1. The Mystical Body of Christ 2. The Kingship of Christ in its Essence 3. The Kingship of Christ in its Integrity 4. Programme of Integral Acceptance of the Kingship of Christ 5. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Kingship of Christ in its Integrity PART II. The Organized Opposition To The Mystical Body Of Christ And To The Divine Plan For Order 6. The Organized Opposition to the Mystical Body of Christ 7. The Invisible Organized Force—Satan and His Fellow-demons 8. The First Visible Organized Naturalistic Force—The Jewish Nation 9. The Second Visible Organized Naturalistic Force—Freemasonry 10. Links Between Organized Anti-Supernatural Forces PART III. Ockhamism Or Nominalism And Political And Economic Decay 11. Thomism and Ockhamism or Nominalism 12. Nominalism and the Advent of Social Materialism PART IV. Political Decay And The Divine Plan For Order 13. The Protestant Revolt Against Order 14. The French Revolution of 1789 15. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 16. Reactions against the Naturalism of the French Revolution PART V. Economic Decay And The Divine Plan For Order 17. Some Aspects of Economic Decay 18. The Functioning of the Gold Standard and Economic Decay 19. The Economic Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Functioning of the Gold Standard 20. The Political Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Functioning of the Gold Standard 21. The Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas and Monetary Reform Index Other Works By The Rev. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. - Rear Dustwrapper