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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6230 Post contents: Postscript to my last message: While there are numerous references by Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno to the preferability of a corporative organization of the social order, none is perhaps more explicit that Para. 83, which reads, in part, as follows: "Ast perfecta sanatio tum tantum efflorescet, cum, oppositione illa e medio sublata, socialis corporis membra bene instructa constituentur: <ordines> nimirum, quibus inserantur homines non pro munere, quod quia in mercatu laboris habeat, sed pro diversis partibus socialibus, quia singuli exerceant. Natura enim duce fit, ut sicut qui loci vicinitate coniuncti sunt municipia constituunt, ita qui in eandem artem vel professionem incumbent--sive oeconomica est sive alterius generius--, collegia seu corpora quaedam efficiant, adeo ut haec consortia iure proprio utentia a multis, sin minus essentialia societati civili, at saltem naturalia dici consuerverint." My translation reads: "The solution (cure), nevertheless, comes when the members of the social body receive proper organization, that is, when they constitute various <orders> in which men no longer conform to the categories assigned to them by the free market, but rather are in conformity with the social function (role) that each one exercises. Just as, by nature, those are connected to a municipality by propinquity, thus also those connected by the same profession or role in society---either economically or in other areas--would constitute certain colleges or corporations, to the point that such organs, ruled by their own proper laws and regulations, come to be considered, if not essential, at the very least coterminous with civil society itself." There are various other passages of a similar nature. As I said earlier, Dollfuss was in the Catholic mainstream. To term him a "clerical fascist" is to copy (and copy very poorly) the terminology of the politcal and social Left, and to think in slogans, which unfortunately we see enough of...too bad it makes its appearance on this site, as well. Sent at: 2008 11 22