Meet the Publishers - IHS Press

Coming just a week after celebrating the glorious Feast Day of Christ the King it seems appropriate to begin our new series of occasional posts - posts that will introduce friends and customers of Carmel Books to some of the less well-known publishers of good solid Catholic educational material - with IHS Press.

IHS Press was founded in 2001 and is the only publisher dedicated exclusively to the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church and its Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy. As such, IHS Press specializes in works of Catholic Social Thought that are faithful to the Traditional Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.

IHS Press believes that the key to the restoration of Catholic Society is the recovery and the implementation of the wisdom that our forefathers in the Faith possessed, so fully, less than a century ago.

At a time when numerous ideologies were competing for supremacy, these men articulated with precision and vigour, and without any apology or compromise, the only genuine alternative to prevailing currents of thought which are value-free yet bureaucratic Progressivism on the one hand, and the rehashed Laissez-Faire free-for-all of Conservatism on the other. That alternative is the traditional Social Teaching of the Catholic Church.

Catholic Social Teaching offers the solutions to the political, economic, and social problems that plague modern society; problems that stem from the false principles of the Reformation, Renaissance, and Revolution, and which are exacerbated by the Industrialization and the secularization of society that has continued for several centuries.

Defending, explaining, and applying this Teaching was the business of the great Social Catholics of the last century. Unfortunately, much of their work is today both unknown and unavailable.

Thus, IHS Press was founded in 2001 as the only publisher dedicated exclusively to the traditional Social Teaching of the Church, helping Catholics of the third millennium pick up where those of last century left off.

IHS Press is committed to recovering, and helping others to rediscover, the valuable works of the Catholic economists, historians, and social critics. To that end, IHS Press is in the business of issuing critical editions of works on society, politics, and economics by writers, thinkers, and men of action such as Hilaire Belloc, Gilbert Chesterton, Arthur Penty, Fr. Vincent McNabb, Fr. Denis Fahey, Jean Ousset, Amintore Fanfani, George O’Brien, and many others, making the wisdom they contain available to the current generation.

Current IHS Press Titles 

Action: A Manual for the Reconstruction of Christendom - Jean Ousset

Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: A New Statement of An Old Ideal - Mackey, Cooney, Potter, Ahlquist, Blum, Chojnowski, Storck, Ederer, McPhail, Fr. L. Smith, Fahey, Lanz

Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism - Amintore Fanfani

Charles I - Hilaire Belloc

Charles II: The Last Rally - Hilaire Belloc

Church and the Land, The - Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P.

Church at the Turning Points of History, The - Godfroid Kurth

Death of Christian Culture, The - John Senior

Distributist Perspectives: vol. 1 - Belloc, Maxwell, Chesterton, Shove, Robbins, Gill, Massingham, Penty

Distributist Perspectives: vol. 2 - Gill, Sayers, Viscount Lymington, Robbins, Massingham, Kenrick, Hagreen, Maxwell, Sagar, Jenks, Peplar

Dollfuss: An Austrian Patriot - Fr. Johannes Messner

Economics for Helen - Hilaire Belloc

Essay on the Economic Effects of the Reformation, An - George O'Brien

Essay on the Restoration of Property, An - Hilaire Belloc

Ethics and the National Economy - Fr. Heinrich Pesch, S.J.

Flee to the Fields - Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement

Free Press, The - Hilaire Belloc

Gauntlet, The: A Challenge to the Myth of Progress - Arthur Penty

Guild State, The: Its Principles and Possibilities - G.R.S. Taylor

G.K. Chesterton: A Prophet for the 21st Century - Aidan Mackey

Irish Impressions - G.K. Chesterton

Miscellany of Men, A - G.k. Chesterton

Nazareth or Social Chaos - Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P.

Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq - with an introduction by Bishop Hilarion Cappuchi and including contributions by Cardinal Ottaviani, Romano Amerio, John Rao, Patrick J. Buchanan, Joseph Sobran, Fr.Juan Carlos Iscara, Paul Likoudis, Robert Hickson and 22 others

Neo-Conned Again!- with an Introduction by former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and including contributions by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, Robert Fisk, Maurizzio Blondet, Noam Chomsky, E. Michael Jones, Kirkpatrick Sale and 43 others

Outline of Sanity, The - G.K. Chesterton

Party System, The - Hilaire Belloc and Cecil Chesterton

Restoration of Christian Culture, The - John Senior

Rebuilding Christendom I - 14 DVD conference set

Richelieu - Hilaire Belloc

Rural Solution, The - Bishop Richard Williamson, Chojnowski, McCann, Marx, Nutting

Saint George: Knight of Lydda - Anthony Cooney

Twelve Types - G.K. Chesterton

Utopia of Usurers - G.K. Chesterton

William Cobbett - G.K. Chesterton

Forthcoming IHS Press Titles

Holy Week: The Complete Offices in Latin and English - Abbot Fernand Cabrol, O.S.B.

The Last of the Realists: A Distributist Biography of G.K. Chesterton - Harold Robbins

Studies in the Catholic Social Movement - Henry Somerville

A Guildsman's Interpretation of History - Arthur Penty

The Portugal of Salazar - Michael Derrick

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