The CATHOLIC PLAN for Social Order

As outlined by Fr Denis Fahey

I. The Catholic Church is the One True Church and ought to be acknowledged assuch by States and Nations. The non-Catholics ought always to be treated in accordance with the teachings of the Church and the principles of Christian charity so that the rights of all human persons be respected.

II The State must recognise the Catholic Church as divinely appointed to teach man what favours or hinders his supernatural destiny.

III The unity and indissolubility of Christian marriage ought to be most carefully maintained, as symbolising the union of Christ and His Mystical Body.

IV Education of youth ought always to envisage youth as members of the Mystical Body.

V The Social Doctrine contained in the papal encyclicals ought to be reduced to practice in such wise as to promote the virtuous life of individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ organised in families, vocational associations and States.

Property, therefore, ought to be widely diffused.

Moreover, this Social Doctrine insists that society thus organised on a vocational basis avoids the pitfalls inherent both in the unbridled individualism favoured by Capitalism and in the excessive State control sponsored by Communism.

VI As money governs the supply of the life-blood to the entire economic body, the CATHOLIC PLAN FOR SOCIAL ORDER demands that the monetary system ought to be so arranged as to facilitate the production, distribution and exchange of material goods and services in view of the virtuous life of members of the Mystical Body of Christ in contented families.