The Catholic and the War
2013
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Hilaire Belloc, writing shortly after the outbreak of WWII, examines the state of the war from a Catholic perspective. He explains why the Catholic has a moral obligation to support the war effort against the Axis Powers; not only because of the crimes perpetrated against the Polish and Jewish peoples, but because a loss for the Allies would mean the end of Western Civilization. Belloc also shares his shock at the attitudes of appeasement towards, and sympathy for, the enemy shared by some of his fellow countrymen.
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Hilaire Belloc
Author · 44 books
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters, and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G.K. Chesterton. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man.
