Essay on the Restoration of Property

In The Free Press Hilaire Belloc's concern was to get the truth published so that by its very liberating nature it would undermine the rampant and growing subordination of the press (either through direct ownership or advertising) to the vested interests of the super wealthy. In his Essay on the Restoration of Property he tackles the problem of modern man's intensifying servility to the amoral beneficiaries of an economic system that has enabled a minority, a wealthy elite, to monopolize ownership of the means of production. So many Catholics today are confused about the subject of economics. It is a confusion born of an ignorance that, sad to say, is practically universal. Not that the Church has been negligent during the industrial age in her magisterial teachings on socio-economic justice, for she certainly has not. The reign of Christ the King ought to be as morally extensive in the governing of man's economic interdependence with his neighbors (fellow men) as it is in marriage and family life.

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