Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy

In this sweeping volume Corrin discusses the influences of Cecil and G. K. Chesterton H. A. Reinhold Hilaire Belloc and many others on the development of Catholic social economic and political thought with a special focus on Belloc and Reinhold as representatives of reactionary and progressive positions respectively. He also provides an in-depth analysis of Catholic Distributists' responses to the labor unrest in Britain prior to World War I and later in the 1930s to the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War and the forces of fascism and communism.