The Christian Social Manifesto

by Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.J., Ph.D.

CONTENTS

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JOSEPH HUSSLEIN, S.J.

Excerpted from Prophet of the Christian Social Manifesto: Joseph Husslein, S.J., His Life, Work & Social Thought.

Contributors: Stephen A. Werner - author. Publisher: Marquette University Press.

Letter of Approval of The Christian Social Manifesto by His Holiness Pope Pius XI, signed by Eugenio Pacelli

Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstruction Of The Social Order) by Pius XI

Rerum Novarum (On Capital And Labor) by Leo XIII

I. THE SPIRIT OF REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE (RN, I)

• The Church and the Modern Revolutionary Spirit
• The Breaking of the Storm.

II. THE ELEMENTS OF CONFLICT (RN, I)

• The Growth of Industry.
• The Discoveries of Science

III. FACTORS THAT MAKE FOR WORLD REVOLUTION (RN, 1; QA, 2)

• Changed Relations of Employers and Men.
• Enormous Fortunes versus Poverty of Many.
• Growing Self-Reliance and Organization of Workers.
• A General Moral Deterioration.

IV. THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS (RN, 2; QA, 3, 13)

• Respective Spheres of Church and State.
• Questions Both Economic and Religious.
• Sacred Obligations of Capital and Labor.
• Dangers in Discussion of Moral Principles.

V. THE DOCTRINE OF LIBERALISM (RN, 2; QA, 30)

• The Teaching of the Physiocrats.
• The Results of the Physiocratic System.
• Two Falacious Fundamental Principles.
• Destruction of the Ancient Workmen's Gilds.
• Repudiation of the Ancient Religion.

VI. LAISSEZ FAIRE THEORY AND THE CHURCH (QA, 6, 8)

• Individualism.
• Laissez Faire.
• The Church's Attack Upon Liberalism.

VII. A MAD RACE FOR PROFITS (RN, 2)

• The Callousness of Employers.
• Rapacious Usury
• Misery and Wretchedness Among the Masses.

VIII. THE NEW ECONOMIC DICTATORSHIP (QA, 24, 25, 33, 36, 44, 45)

• Proletarianism Not Abolished.
• Despotic Economic Domination by the Few.
• Majesty of the State Degraded — Remedies.
• The Loss of Souls Through Economic Abuses.
• Coining Money Out of Souls.

IX. SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS

• Socialist Philosophy.
• Socialist Economics.
• Socialism as a Political Movement.

X. THE MARXIAN PROGRAM

• Primitive Communism Rejected.
• The Marxian "Expropriators."
• The Gotha and Erfurt Programs.
• Our Fate Not in the Stars.

XI. SOCIALISM AND THE WORKINGMAN (RN, 3, 4; QA, 6; 14)

• Church's Concern for Workingman.
• True Desires of the Workingman Not Socialistic.
• New Slavery or Christian Liberty.
• Socialism Falsely Accuses the Church.

XII. PIUS XI ON CHANGES IN SOCIALISM (QA, 37-42)

• Communism.
• Mitigated Socialism.
• Can Christians be Socialists?
• Christian Socialism a Contradiction in Terms.
• Corrupting the Young.

XIII. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP A NATURAL RIGHT (RN, 5, 6; QA, 15, 17)

• The Natural Law.
• The Natural Right Regarding Ownership.
• Individual and Social Aspect of Ownership.
• Power of State Regarding Ownership Limited.

XIV. THE ORIGIN OF PRIVATE OWNERSHIP (RN, 7; QA, 19)

• Modern Notion of an Omnipotent State.
• The Earth Made for all Mankind.
• Man's General Right to Ownership Made Definite.
• The Earth to Minister to Needs of All.

XV. PRIVATE LAND OWNERSHIP (RN, 7, 8; QA, 24)

• The Right of First Occupancy. Land Tenantry System.
• More Private Owners Required.
• Single Tax or Land Socialism.
• Consentient View of Mankind.

XVI. RELATIONS OF STATE AND FAMILY (RN, 9-12)

• Property Rights and Christian Marriage. Family
• Rights and the State. State Monopoly of the Young.

XVII. THE CHURCH AND HUMAN EQUALITY (RN, 13, 14)

• No Solution Without Aid of Religion.
• Christian Doctrine Regarding Equality.
• Delusive Hopes and False Promises.

XVIII. RELATIONS AND DUTIES OF CAPITAL AND LABOR (RN, 15-17; QA, 29)

• Obligations of the Workingman.
• Obligations of the Employer.

XIX. THE PROPER USE OF WEALTH (RN, 18, 19; QA, 16,18, 46)

• Social Value of the Truth of a Hereafter.
• The Right Use of Money.
• The Christian Ethics of Property.
• Wise Use of Superfluous Income.

XX. THE BONDS OF BROTHERLY LOVE (RN, 20-24; QA, 46)

• The Divine Solution of the Social Problem.
• The Social Labors of the Church.
• Social Results of Charity.

XXI. THE STATE'S DUTIES TOWARD LABOR (RN, 25-27; QA, 20, 21)

• The Purpose of the State.
• Interests of the Poor First Concern of the State.
• The Justice Due to Labor.

XXII. THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF THE STATE (RN, 28, 29; QA, 17)

• State Authority and Its Limits.
• The Real Functions of State Authority.
• Wage Earners to be Specially Protected.

XXIII. INDUSTRIAL STRUGGLES AND HUMAN RIGHTS (RN, 30, 32; QA, 23, 24)

• Socialist and Christian Standards of Right.
• Conditions Needed to Justify Strikes.
• Duties of State to Remove Causes of Conflict.
• The Spiritual Rights of Labor to be Safeguarded.
• The Principle of a Just Distribution of Wealth.

XXIV. THE PAGAN EXPLOITATION OF MAN, WOMAN, CHILD (RN, 33)

• The Pagan System of Profits for Profit's Sake
• Wearing Out the Worker's Strength.
• The Cruelty of Child Labor.
• Exploitation of Woman in Industry.

XXV. FUNDAMENTALS OF THE WAGE QUESTIONS (RN, 34, 35; QA, 24-27)

• Wages and the Sacred Scriptures.
• Leo XIII on the Subject of Wages.
• Pius XI on the Subject of Wages.

XXVI. THE LARGER ASPECTS OF THE WAGE QUESTION (QA, 27)

• The Minimum Wage.
• The Adequate Wage.
• The Constructive Wage.
• A Saving Wage.
• A Cultural Wage.

XXVII. THE PROPER DISTRIBUTION OF OWNERSHIP (RN, 35; QA, 24, 25)

• Workers' Participation in Share Ownership.
• The Worker a Capitalist.
• Wage Contract Modified by Partnership Contract.
• Producers' and Consumers' Cooperative Societies.

XXVIII. THE CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT OF LABOR UNIONISM (RN, 36-39, 42; QA, 9)

• Voluntary Labor Unions.
• Natural Right of Association.
• Rightful Labor Unionism to be Defended.
• The Christian Attitude Toward Labor Unionism.
• Necessity of Organization for Labor.
• Suppression of Labor Unionism.
• Need of Christian Principles for Trade Unionists.

XXIX. THE CHRISTIAN TRADE UNIONS (RN, 40-44; QA, 10)

• Nature and Purpose of Christian Trade Unions
• Spiritual and Temporal Advantages.
• Circumstances Exempting Workers from Christian Unions.
• Condition for Joining Neutral Trade Union.
• Industrial Associations by Catholics for Catholics.
• Application to the United States.

XXX. THE SYSTEM OF OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS (QA, 28-32)

• Nature of the Occupational Group System.
• Present-Day Possibility of an Organic Social Life.
• Reason for Occupational Group System.
• Organization of Occupational Group System.
• Effectively to Realize the Great Social Ideal.

XXXI. THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL APOSTOLATE (RN, 45; QA, 43, 46-48)

• Social Reconstruction and Christian Renewal.
• The Soul of the Social Order, Charity.
• Social Education and Social Work of the Clergy.
• Christian Social Education for all Ages and Classes.

XXXII. "BRAVE HEARTS AND UNITED FORCES" (QA, 49)

• Vatican Letter on Industrial Associations.
• Seven Industrial Statements by Sacred Congregation.
• Catholic Union of Work in Bonds of Charity.

XXXIII. SUMMARY: THE TRIPLE LEAGUE

• Directions for Trade Unionists.
• Directions for Employers' Associations.
• Directions for Hierarchy and Clergy.

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