The Catholic Thing

As Belloc called it.

An anonymous comment on a previous post reads:

"Having lived here [in the North-West Durham constituency] all my life I am extremely concerned that Labour is choosing their candidate based on who is Catholic enough to beat a man with many connections to the American Catholic Right and the Vatican itself."

Well, if Labour really is doing such a thing, then that is neither any fault of mine nor anything that it is within my power to affect.

But this comment does give me an opportunity make an important clarification. I do not only seek (or enjoy) Catholic support. But if you want something that unites and transcends the strands of mainstream political thought in this country at large - economically descended from the conservatives Colbert and Bismarck via the Liberals Keynes and Beveridge to the Attlee Government, morally and socially conservative, and patriotically loyal to all three of the former Kingdom of England (including the Principality of Wales), the former Kingdom of Scotland and the former Kingdom of Ireland, together with the Commonwealth that they created as the overflowing of their own indivisibility (a most profound form of caritas) - then you will find that unification and transcendence in Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism, and nowhere else.

And if you subscribe to the Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism that very largely made me a Catholic, then, given the opportunity, you must surely support a politician whose position is that very unification and transcendence of the economics that descended from the conservatives Colbert and Bismarck via the Liberals Keynes and Beveridge to the Attlee Government, of moral and social conservatism, and of patriotic loyalty to all three of the former Kingdom of England (including the Principality of Wales), the former Kingdom of Scotland and the former Kingdom of Ireland, together with the Commonwealth that they created as the overflowing of their own indivisibility (a most profound form of caritas).