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[The following passage is from Christopher Hollis’s autobiographical memoir, The Seven Ages: Their Exits and Their Entrances. A man of parts, Hollis (1902–1977) was a British schoolmaster, university teacher, author, and Conservative MP. At Oxford he belonged to the Hypocrites’ Club, along with Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell. The son of an Anglican bishop, Hollis converted to Catholicism in 1924. In the 1930s he became acquainted with some of the Kennedy clan, including the future president. Kathleen Kennedy, who married Lord Hartington, heir of the Duke of Devonshire, was a friend of his.]

The Catholic solution of social problems which we most frequently heard preached were those of the distributism of Belloc and Chesterton. It suited me very well since Catholic apologetics, though they recommended the Pope’s social teaching, did not greatly insist on them. It was a good thing to study social problems and our obligations to the poor but it was not an absolute obligation. To neglect them was not a mortal sin—not of the order of eating meat on Friday.

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