Janice and Bill with supporters
after court hearing

Yesterday I talked about receiving copy of In Communion, the journal of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. There was an article in it about Distributism, a third-way economic philosophy that sits between socialism and capitalism. The article, Distributism, a Primer for Orthodox Christians explains the economic system to Orthodox Christian but describes its origins as formulated by such Roman Catholic thinkers as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of Catholic Social Teaching articulated by the Catholic Church.

I had heard the term before but never really researched it. I probably heard the term from the Catholic Worker movement since distributist thought was adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities.

A quote from Chesterton sums up some of the thought of this third economic system: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” This is a third way economic philosophy worth exploring.

Speaking of a third way, I discovered today a three-way connection of friends. I found out why two friends of mine, who did not know each other, Father Bill Brennan and Janice Sevre-Duszynska, both Catholic priests, were connected in stories about the arrest at the School of Americas Watch (SOA) at Fort Benning, GA. Janice sent this story of their arrest and conviction together last weekend. See Witness of Janice Sevre Duszynska.

I am proud to call them both friends and now in the crucible of nonviolent resistance they are friends to each other. So I discovered a third way economic system and a three way connection of friends.

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