Catholic intellectuals and the challenge of democracy / Jay P. Corrin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-541) and index.

European Catholics confront revolution -- The development of Catholic social action in nineteenth-century England -- Leo XIII and the principles of rerum novarum -- The appearance of the "chesterbelloc" -- Against the Servile State -- Distributism and British politics -- The new distributists -- The appeal of fascism -- Early Catholic critics of fascism -- Social Catholicism and the career of H.A. Reinhold -- American Catholics move to the right -- The religious crusade in Spain -- Against the tide : the Catholic critics of Franco -- Completing the circle.