Note 1062 — Chapter IV · : DOCTRINES THAT OWE THEIR INSPIRATION TO CHRISTIANITY

Father Antoine writes as follows in his Cours d’Économie sociale, p. 154; “The social question can never be completely solved until we have a complete revival of Christian morals.” Still more categorical is the declaration of M. Léon Harmel in L’Association catholique for December 1889: “We can see only one remedy, and that is that the authority of the Pope should be recognised all the world over, and his ruling accepted by all people.”

The annual study reunions which go by the name of les Semaines sociales, and which afford one of the best manifestations of the kind of activities which Social Christianity gives rise to everywhere, are not so exclusive. Economic questions of all kinds are discussed, but the programme is not strictly Catholic at all, and the basis is wide enough to include everyone who is a professed Christian.