The Josias is a manual of Catholic Integralism, an attempt to articulate a truly Catholic political stance from which to approach the present order of society, and promote justice, right, virtue, freedom, and the common good.
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Integralism as Mystical Theology
Certain critics of Catholic integralism have commonly brought forward the charge that integralists have forsaken mysticism for power, adopting a one-sided predilection for coercion, at the expense of the real essence of the Catholic religion, which is self-emptying love. This is a critique that has been leveled by Michael Hanby,[1] David C. Schindler,[2] and others. According …
The Liturgy and Society
By the Rev. Jon Tveit “Liturgia est culmen ad quod actio Ecclesiae tendit et simul fons unde omnis eius virtus emanat.”[1] These lapidary words from the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on the sacred liturgy have become commonplace in explaining the centrality of the liturgy in the life of the Christian. So too has the document’s …
Reflections on the Moral and Political Work of Charles De Koninck
by Marcel de Corte[1] Translation by Brian Welter[2] I have known Charles De Koninck for a long time through his writings. I had the chance to speak with him more than once two years ago during my three-month stay as visiting professor at Laval University in Quebec City, where he teaches. Inconveniently, he was at …
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Table of Contents
Outline
- Ethics
- Domestic Society
- The Village and the City
- Politics
- International Society
- Spiritual and Temporal Power
- Catholic Action
- Particular Historical and Contemporary Cases
- Art
- Speculative Philosophy
Introduction
What is the Josias?
The Editors
Integralism in Three Sentences
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
1. Ethics
1.1. The Final End
The Good, the Highest Good, and the Common Good
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
The Object of the Moral Act
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
The Foundations of Christian Ethics and Social Order
Peter Kwasniewski
Part I – Part II
Contrasting Concepts of Freedom
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Freedom as Choosing the Good, Against the Nihilists
Peter Kwasniewski
Notes on Right and Law
Petrus Hispanus
1.3. Virtue
Notes on Moral Virtue
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
2. Domestic Society
2.1. Its Relation to Civil Society
Aristotle’s Account of the Relationship of the Household to the State
Beatrice Freccia
Part I – Part II
On the Relation of the Individual Person and the Family to Civil Society (Against Personalism)
Henri Grenier
The End of the Family and the End of Civil Society
Charles De Koninck
On the Modes of Teaching
Jeffrey Bond
Part I – Part II – Part III
2.3. Property
The Lawfulness and Social Character of Private Ownership
Henri Grenier
Thomism and Private Property
W Borman
Aquinas on Buying and Selling
Thomas Storck
The Sin of Usury
Thomas Storck
3. The Village and the City
Nature and Art in the Village
John Francis Nieto
Urbanism and the Common Good
Nathaniel Gotcher
4. Politics
4.1. Ends of Civil Society
The Dignity of Politics and the End of the Polity
Henri Grenier
On Political Atheism
Tommaso Maria Cardinal Zigliara, OP
Political Authority in Homer’s Odyssey
Jeffrey Bond
Four Basic Political Principles in Christian Philosophy
Felix de St. Vincent
4.2. The Sovereign
4.2.1. Nature of Sovereignty
War in the Hobbesian State – Sovereignty’s Justification and Limit
Jeffrey Bond
4.2.2 Legitimacy
A Note on the Legitimacy of Governments
Daniel Lendman
Dubium: When is Any Government “Legitimate”?
Felix de St. Vincent
On the Subject of Civil Authority, and On Resistance to Tyranny
Henri Grenier
The Duties and Rights of Subjects toward the Civil Power
Tommaso Maria Cardinal Zigliara, OP
The Illegitimate State as Chastisement
Gregory de Rivière-Blanche
Taming the Woes of Leviathan: Direct Democracy and the Problem of Authority
Michaël Bauwens
4.3. Citizens and Subjects
Catholics and the Ethics of Voting
Stomachosus
4.4. Possible Forms of Government
Republican Liberty and the Common Good in the American Tradition
Felix de St. Vincent
Logos and Leviathan: Leonine Perspectives on Democracy
Aelredus
Hard Liberalism, Soft Liberalism, and the American Founding
Edmund Waldstein, O. Cist
4.5. Jurisprudence
Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence
Brian M. McCall
Part I – Part II – Part III – Part IV
4.6. Alternative Theories of Civil Society
Right, Left, Forward, or Back? Or Why I Am Neither Left Nor Right
John Francis Nieto
Liberalism’s Fear
Adrian Vermeule
Theses and Responses on Antiamericanism
Coëmgenus
Fisher Ames: Forgotten Critic of the American Regime
Have the Principles of the Right been Discredited?
Gabriel Sanchez
“According to Truth”
Adrian Vermeule
Integralism versus the Marxist and Post-Marxist Left
Vincent Clark
5. International Society
World Government is Required by Natural Law
Henri Grenier
The Needy Immigrant, Nationalism, Globalism, and the Universal Destination of Goods
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Catholicism and the Natural World
Thomas Storck
6. Spiritual and Temporal Power
6.1. Catholic Integralism in General
Integralism in Three Sentences
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Integralism and Gelasian Dyarchy
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Catholic Integralism and the Social Kingship of Christ
Gabriel Sanchez
The City of God: An Introduction
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
On the City of God Against the Pagans
Alan Fimister
Exhortation to the Restoration of Christendom
Dom Gérard, Abbot of Le Barroux
A Reflection on St. Pius X and Contemporary Approaches to Catholic Social Teaching
Gabriel Sanchez
Against Political Iconoclasm
Nathaniel Gotcher
6.2. The Catholic State
The Catholic State: Anachronism, Arch-enemy, or Archetype?
Peter Kwasniewski
The Question of Res publica Christiana in Post-conciliar Catholic Doctrines
John Rao
Part I – Part II – Part III
Dyarchy is Dyarchical: A Reply to Meador
Joel Augustine
On the Subordination of the State to the Church
Tommaso Maria Cardinal Zigliara, OP
6.3. Religious Liberty
The Young St. Thomas on Tolerating Heretics
Religious Liberty and Tradition
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Part I – Part II – Part III – Part IV
Dubium: Can the State Limit Non-Catholic Religions?
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
A Critique of John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration
Derek Remus
Part I – Part II – Part III
Locke’s Doctrine of Toleration: A Contract with Nothingness
Jeffrey Bond
Part I – Part II – Part III
On Liberty of Conscience
Tommaso Maria Cardinal Zigliara, OP
On Liberty of Cult
Tommaso Maria Cardinal Zigliara, OP
On the Utility and Necessity of Prohibiting Harmful Books
St. Alphonsus Liguori
On Liberty of Teaching
Tommaso Maria Cardinal Zigliara, OP
Excommunication and the Efficacy of Ecclesiastical Sanctions
Peter Kwasniewski
On Dignitatis Humanae – A Reply to Thomas Storck
Thomas Pink
Thomas Becket, Integralist
Dan Whitehead
7. Catholic Action
The Primary Political Question: A Response to Milco on Liberalism
Petrus Hispanus
Confusion on Catholic Action: A Reply to Petrus Hispanus
Gabriel Sanchez
Response to Sanchez on Catholic Action
Petrus Hispanus
Catholic Action and Ralliement
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Celeberrima evenisse
Benedict XV
Four Catholic Political Postures: Lessons from Leo XIII and Ralliement
Felix de St. Vincent
15 Ways to be a More Effective Pro-Life Advocate
HHG
Ralliement: Two Distinctions
Adrian Vermeule
8. Particular Historical and Contemporary Cases
Quare Lacrymae
Pope Pius VI
Charlie Hebdo and the Illiberal Catholic
HHG
A Catholic Political Party in Wilhelmine Germany
Golo Mann
Mit brennender Sorge
Pius XI
Dubium: Is Integralism Essentially Bound Up with Racism, Nationalism, and Totalitarianism?
Gabriel Sanchez
The Lake Garda Statement: On the Ecclesial and Civilizational Crisis
The Roman Forum
Considering the Effects of Obergefell vs. Hodges in Light of Catholic Doctrine on Marriage
James N Berquist
St. Bernard and the Theology of Crusade
Benet Oxon
Debemus: In Defense of Fr. Cessario, Bl. Pius IX, and the Catholic Faith
Frater Asinus
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Critique of Integralism
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
9. Art
The Philosophy of Art
Thomas Storck
Nature and Art in the Village
John Francis Nieto
10. Speculative Philosophy
On Recovering a Genuine Thomism in Our Times
Peter Kwasniewski
Error as a Parasite
Peter Kwasniewski
Is Man an Individual?
Ian Bothur
Library
Brief Introductions to Texts in The Josias’s Library
St. Thomas Aquinas
“On the Government of Things in General” STh Ia Q.103
Treatise on Law, STh Ia IIae QQ.90-108
Prudence and Government, STh IIa IIae Q.47 AA.10-12
Regnative Prudence and its Species, STh IIa IIae Q.50
On Right and Justice, STh IIa IIae QQ.57-122
Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics
Commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics
On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus
Charity Compared to Political Virtue, Q.D. de Virtutibus Q.2 A.2
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
Tertullian
On the Duty of Praying for the Emperor
St. Ambrose of Milan
On Naboth
The Altar of Victory
St. Augustine of Hippo
The City of God
Letter 93
Letter 185
Pope St. Gelasius I
Famuli Vestrae Pietatis — On Spiritual and Temporal Power
Pope St. Gregory VII
Dictatus Papæ – On the Authority of the Pope
Letter to Bishop Hermann of Metz — On the Two Powers
Pope Innocent III
Letters – on Papal Authority, on Usury, etc.
Pope Boniface VIII
Unam Sanctam – On the Two Swords
Pope John XXII
Condemnation of Marsilius of Padua
Cum inter nonnullos – Condemning Claims that Christ and the Apostles Held no Property
Pope Alexander VI
Inter Cætera — Granting the West Indies to Spain
Pope Leo X
Exsurge Domine – Against the Errors of Martin Luther
Pope St. Pius V
Regnans in Excelsis – Excommunication of Elizabeth I of England
Pope Benedict XIV
Vix Pervenit — On Usury
Pope Pius VI
Inscrutabile — On the Problems of the Time
Quare Lacrymae – On the Martyrdom of King Louis XVI of France
Pope Gregory XVI
Mirari Vos – On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism
Bl. Pope Pius IX
Maxima Quidem – On the Enemies of the Catholic Cause
Quanta Cura – Condemning Current Errors
Etsi Multa – On the Church in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland
Quod Nunquam – On the Church in Prussia
Qui Pluribus – On Faith and Religion
Pope Leo XIII
Quod Apostolici Muneris – On Socialism
Aeterni Patris – On the Restoration of Catholic Philosophy
Arcanum – On Christian Marriage
Diuturnum – On the Origin of Civil Power
Cum Multa – On Conditions in Spain
Nobilissima Gallorum Gens – On the Religious Question in France
Immortale Dei – On the Christian Constitution of States
Exeunte Iam Anno – On the Right Ordering of Christian Life
Rerum Novarum – On Capital and Labor
Sapientiae Christianae – On Christians as Citizens
Au Milieu des Sollicitudes – On Church and State in France
Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus – On Jesus Christ the Redeemer
Libertas Praestantissimum – On the Nature of Human Liberty
Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae – Virtue, Nature, Grace, and Americanism
Longinqua Oceani — On Catholicism in The United States
Reputantibus saepe—On the Language Question in Bohemia
Custodi Di Quella Fede – Guardians of That Faith
Pope St. Pius X
E Supremi Apostolatus – On the Restoration of All Things in Christ
Notre Charge Apostolique – On the Sillon
Iucunda Sane – On Pope St. Gregory the Great
Vehementer Nos – On the French Law Separating Church and State
Pascendi Dominici Gregis – On the Doctrines of the Modernists
Communium Rerum – On St. Anselm of Aosta
Edite Saepe – On St. Charles Borromeo
Une Fois Encore – On the Separation of Church and State
Il Fermo Proposito – On Catholic Action in Italy
Fin Dalla Prima Nostra – On Popular Catholic Action
Pope Benedict XV
Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum – Appealing for Peace (1 Nov 1914)
Celeberrima evenisse
Pope Pius XI
Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio – On the Peace of Christ in Christ’s Kingdom
Casti Connubii – On Christian Marriage
Quas Primas – On the Feast of Christ the King
Quadragesimo Anno – On the Reconstruction of the Social Order
Nova impendet — On the Economic Crisis
Caritate Christi Compulsi – On the Sacred Heart
Dilectissima Nobis – On the Oppression of the Church of Spain
Mit Brennender Sorge – On the Church and the German Reich
Divini Redemptoris – On Atheistic Communism
Divini Illius Magistri – On Christian Education
Firmissimam Constantiam – On the Religious Situation in Mexico
Mortalium Animos – On True Religion Unity
Divini Illius Magistri – On Christian Education
Pope Pius XII
Summi Pontificatus – On the Unity of Human Society
Sertum Laetitiae – On the Establishment of the U.S. Hierarchy
Anni Sacri – On Combating Atheist Propaganda
Humani Generis – On the False Doctrines of the “New Theology”
Doctor Mellifluus – On St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Ecclesiae Fastos – On St. Boniface
Le Pelerinage de Lourdes – Warning against Materialism
Miranda Prorsus – On the New Media
Ci Riesce – On Religious Tolerance
La solennità della Pentecoste – On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Rerum novarum
Pope St. John XXIII
Ad Petri Cathedram – On Truth, Unity, and Peace
Mater et Magistra – On Christianity and Social Progress
Pacem in Terris – On Establishing Universal Peace
Bl. Pope Paul VI
Ecclesiam Suam – On the Church
Populorum Progressio – On the Development of Peoples
Octogesima Adveniens – On the 80th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Homily on the Ninth Anniversary of his Pontificate
Pope St. John Paul II
Homily for the Inauguration of His Pontificate
Laborem Exercens – Through Work
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis – The Social Concern of the Church
Centesimus Annus – The One Hundredth Year
Evangelium Vitae – The Gospel of Life
Veritatis Splendor – The Moral Life
Pope Benedict XVI
Deus Caritas Est
The Regensburg Lecture
Spe Salvi
Caritas in Veritate
Address to the German Bundestag
Pope Francis
Address to Popular Movements
Laudato si’— On Care for our Common Home
Modern Papal Pronouncements on Political Matters
A Catena
Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
On Royal Government
Henri Grenier
Thomistic Philosophy, Vol 3: Moral Philosophy
Charles De Koninck
On the Primacy of the Common Good
Duane Berquist
Lectures on Ethics
Marcus Berquist
Common Good and Private Good
Ronald McArthur
The Rights of Man and the Tyranny of Law
Thomas Pink
What is the Catholic doctrine of religious liberty?
Jacques Maritain and the problem of Church and State
Suarez and Bellarmine on the Church as Coercive Lawgiver
John Francis Nieto
The Axiomatic Character of the Principle that the Common Good is Preferable to the Private Good
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Integralism
An Integralist Manifesto
What is Integralism Today?
Integralism and the Logic of the Cross
Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem.
The Primacy of the Common Good as the Root of Personal Dignity in the Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas
Fidelissimus Discipulus Ejus: Charles De Koninck’s Exposition of Aquinas’ Doctrine on the Common Good
Praise for The Josias
“If you want to know more about Catholic integralism, The Josias is a good place to begin.” — Rod Dreher
“This is like every worst thing in the Universe condensed into the foulest brew.” — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
“Douthat suggests that the future of Catholic political thinking might lie in this direction. If it does, God help us all.” — John Zmirak