Adeste, Fideles

Going where the Catholic Union of Great Britain cannot or will not go, there is a most urgent need for a Catholic League of the United Kingdom, which would, in absolute fidelity to the Roman Magisterium, defend and promote:

- The pro-life interest;
- The pro-family interest;
- The pro-worker interest;
- The anti-war interest;
- The Distributist interest;
- The Catholic interest in public service provision;
- The Catholic interest in foreign policy;
- - The Christian heritage of the United Kingdom and of other countries; and
- The closest possible economic, social, cultural and political ties among the historic Kingdom of England (including the Principality of Wales), the historic Kingdom of Scotland, and the historic Kingdom of Ireland.

Specifically, though not exclusively, it would:

- Publish in the run-up to each General Election a list of five policies in each of the above areas identified by the National Representative for that area, together with the details of one community project in each deanery identified by the Deanery Representative there, against which candidates would be rated and those ratings made public prior to the Election;
- Meet the election expenses of parliamentary candidates in proportion to the above ratings;
- Encourage members to participate with due discretion in political parties, and most especially in the dominant party wherever such exists, with a view to influencing the selection of parliamentary candidates;
- Maintain and circulate private lists of members who are also members of political parties, who enjoy one hundred per cent ratings in the above terms, and who desire to be selected as parliamentary candidates;
- Encourage and assist the appointment of members to the House of Lords; and
- Make representations with regard to appointments to the Episcopate and other senior positions.

The National Representatives would be laypeople appointed by the Council (elected by and from among the members) with the approval of an established Catholic apostolate of unimpeachable orthodoxy. The Deanery Representatives would be laypeople appointed in each case by the relevant Diocesan Chaplain, himself a priest appointed by the Council with the approval of that apostolate.

The forty-five policies identified by the National Representatives would have been declared by that apostiolate to be consistent with Catholic Teaching, and the community project identified by each Deanery Representative would have been declared by the relevant Diocesan Chaplain to be consistent with Catholic Teaching. And that apostolate would make itself available for the spiritual and intellectual development of the members.

So, which apostolate, and why?