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Group action is the keynote to our modern society. No longer are men working as individuals, be it in business, in politics, or in religion. This group action is largely instinctive, but there is a desire for it and a realisation that through it something can be achieved, though unfortunately the ‘something’ is rather uncertain.
This desire for group action, this longing to be with and work with others, can be found in many spheres: Hitler and his mass regimentation, Mussolini’s fascist spirit, our own youth movements, in big business, and among Catholics.
Never before in the story of the Church has there been such interest in the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ. In all parts of the Church theologians and other thinkers are writing about and discussing the doctrine and working out its implications.
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1 For information about Woolworth’s profits and methods see “Woolworth’s“ by J. L. Benvenisti (G.K,’s Weekly).
2 Tames Russell Lowell.
3 March 1939.
4 Some idea of the extent to which co-operation has grown may be given in the following details. In Great Britain some seven million families support the movement. In Finland a third of the retail business of the country was done through COoperatives. In Denmark co-operatives have reduced farm tenancy from 42 per cent to 3 per cent of the farms. Over one-third of the tea drunk in Great Britain is grown on plantations owned by the British co-operative movement and brought on their own ships to be sold through co-operative owned shops.
The possibility of co-operation under Catholic leadership can be seen in three books, two describing the famous Nova Scotia movement, which is led by the Catholic University at Antigonish, and the third describes an Irish Co-operative Society. They are The Lord Helps Those . . . by B. Fowler (Co-operative League, Yew York), Masters of their Own Destiny by Fr. Coady (Harper Bros., New York, and My Story by Paddy the Cope (Jonathan Cape, 7/6).