Hilaire Belloc Estate. Belloc lived from 1870 to 1953.(2) Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, by Joseph Pearce, p. 1.(3) All quotes of Belloc are taken from An Essay on the Restoration of Property as reprinted by IHS Press, Norfolk, VA, 2002.(4) Whats Wrong with Distributivism? by Dr. Todd R. Flanders; http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/adjunct/papers/distribute.html, p. 1.(5) Internal footnote: Lecons de Philosophie Sociale (vol I, p. 148), Economy, as its name expresses, studies the order of the human household, arranging, according to their respective values, persons and things (Philosophie Economique, by J. Vialatoux, p.78.(6) The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, by Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. (Third Edition), p. 6-7.(7) Essay, pp. 25, 26.(8) Capitalism Defended by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Remnant Sept 30, 2004 (p. 13).(9) Essay, p. 26.(10) Ibid., p. 26.(11) Ibid., p. 26.(12) Flanders, p. 3.(13) Ibid., p. 4.(14) Essay, p. 38.(15) Ibid., p. 39-40, 41. This appears to echo perfectly the thoughts of Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891, paragraph 6: After the old trade guilds had been destroyed in the last century, and no protection was substituted in their place, and when public institutions and legislation had cast off traditional religious teaching, it gradually came about that the present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors. A devouring usury, although often condemned by the Church, but practiced nevertheless under another form by avaricious and grasping men, has increased the evil; and in addition, the whole process of production, as well as trade in every kind of goods has been brought almost entirely under the power of a few, so that a very few rich and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke almost of slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.(16) Essay, p. 95.(17) Ibid., p. 33.(18) This concept of separating commerce from morality is actually capitalist in origin. As Amintore Fanfani relates in Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism: Another difference between the mentality of the pre-capitalist and that of the capitalist is this: the former considers that appraisement of value in the economic sphere should be governed by moral criteria; the latter would make the economic criterion the sole norm of such appraisements (emphasis mine). Interestingly, as an aside, the thesis of his book is that the errors of Capitalism actually arose from and were fostered by corrupt Catholics towards the close of the Middle Ages and helped precipitate the end of that era rather than by Protestants at a later period, as is believed by many.(19) Against The American Distributist by Daniel Krotz by M. De Marco, http://mdemarco.web.wesleyan.edu/gkc/distrib/essay.html, p. 1.(20) See Pope Pius IXs Syllabus of Errors, December 8, 1864, especially paragraphs 3, 4, 6, 8, and 9. Paragraph 4 reads: All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason; hence reason is the ultimate standard by which man can and ought to arrive at the knowledge of all truths of every kind. Condemned. Also see Faheys The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World,