I would say that the smallest point for subsidiary is the individual human, and that each larger group should only impose to protect the lower. The family exists to protect individuals, cities/towns/counties exist to protect families, states exist to protect cities/towns/counties, countries exist to protect states, and inter-government associations exist to support countries.

I was terminated for choosing to make my own health decisions, but they also denied me from getting any other job. To top that, I cannot receive any unemployment insurance money from the government, a setup that I have been paying into for 20+ years per the gov’s request for this exact circumstance. Yet they denied me even this. I cannot make a living here. I have to leave the state of my birth.

Yes, thank you. I’m so tired of seeing the Church taking its cues from the world and echoing the world’s mantras. If they only knew how much support they would have if they would just lead.

I don't know who said it, but some time ago I came across a quote that went something like, "If you have to combine the words 'social' and 'justice' into 'social justice,' what you get is neither social nor just." It got me thinking. Justice is for the good of society overall. If it's restricted to one class, then it's neither just nor good for society. Also I'm impoverished, albeit living like a queen compared to the poorest in the world. I was born poor and have spent my life trying to work my way out of poverty, but programs supposedly designed to help the poor only slapped me back down. For instance, the health insurance mandate in the US. "Obamacare," they call it. First, it led my employer to eliminate my job category, and to contract with a temp agency to hire temporary workers to do my job. I went through the temp agency, taking a pay cut along with a deep cut in hours. The cutting of hours was the biggie -- it was done to keep the agency from having to offer health coverage to me. Eventually I began to train for a different field, requiring the expense of certification and documentation to be renewed every 5 years. Unfortunately, in the 3rd year, I was laid off, and wasn't called back until late in the 4th year. I didn't have health coverage while I was laid off, so I had to pay the penalty to the IRS. No income, pay up! That didn't help me out of poverty. I didn't have the resources to renew my documents. So I was slapped back down. SJWs use me as a mascot for their own selfish purposes. I don't say that with rancor, it's just an observation.

Brian, you’re voice is very clear. I’m glad to see you using your talent. I found out something during covid. The church that you referred to, one we should turn to in times of confusion and crisis, has never really ever failed us. The Church is not clouded by human sins, human nature, human failings. The Church is perfect, mystical. If I can’t turn to our Pope, our Bishop, our priest for guidance, I can surely use the grace from their exercise of the Holy sacraments to turn to The Father, Son, Holy Ghost, ever Virgin Mary, the Angels, Saints for guidance. A priest once told me that the church is 99% failed humanity and 1% Holy, Supernatural Spirit. Well, I now believe the Church is 99% Supernatural and 1% failed humanity. God Bless you and your family. I hope this helps. Pray for all of us who fail.

This video is a true gift. Please never delete it. I shared it, because many do not seem to grasp this simple concept.

Thank you, Brian! You absolutely nailed it in this. I can’t wait to share this video with others… As the wife of a working class man who lost his job for vaccine refusal and then being denied unemployment benefits, this hits home. I’m so glad you’re using your voice and influence to tackle this issue in the Church. The Church sacrificed the poor/working class because of fear. God bless you! 💜💐🙏🏻

Thank you for this, social teaching is so misunderstood and thus easily abused. Interested Catholics should read Leo XIII, Pius XI, JP II, GK Chesterton and Belloc. There is so much to study on Catholic social teaching. You are so right about our need to question policy.

As a non-Catholic, much respect to Catholic social teaching. I'm so glad you brought up inflation. Printing money out of thin air in fact is the exact opposite of both aspects. Not only does it cut the knees out from under the regular person's purchasing power, but you're basically selling current and future generations into debt slavery. In effect, inflation is essentially an excessove tax on basically anyone who isn't wealthy and holding a diversified asset portfolio. What's even worse is that it's possible now more than ever for people to learn financial literacy so they can do even what little they can to stay afloat with certain assets, but we're deliberately being given poor financial literacy in our education (which is precisely why too many people claim to believe socialism is a good idea). I can't speak for Canada, but I imagine it isn't any better where I live in America. The fact of the matter is that in the US, unless you got a 7% raise in the last year, you have objectively lost money based on the value of our money today compared to what it was a year ago. This is a video that should be seen and a lesson that must be learned by anyone who profess Christ, Roman Catholic or otherwise.

I'm an American and have only recently come to know of Pierre Poilievre bc of recent events surrounding the Freedom Convoy. That meeting was truly astonishing, which is a word I do not often use. Any Catholic that has an implicit or explicit trust of big government and is blind to how it undermines subsidiarity should look no further than the deafening silence of those federal officials concerning the ultimate welfare of their constituents..

Mr. Holdsworth, I've been watching your videos for years now. This was truly eye opening for me and I understand now that your struggle was of similar nature to my own at that time. I've since taken solace in Christ "going into the mountain to pray". I go to that mountain, that high place where my feet are set upon the Rock; through Him, with Him and in Him. It's my prayer that you can be taken up daily after your ministry to the people on the shores of this world. God bless you always.

Fan. Freaking. Tastic. I am presently converting to Catholicism, which has been quite a journey for me. I have for years subscribed to political ideas mirrored in subsidiarity and solidarity and have gradually honed them, through a secular lens, for most of my adult life. Finding that they not only are consistent but actually a part of church teaching bridges a lot of the gaps I was concerned may exist. Thank you for this video, Brian!

You're so good at explaining things in a tangible way. It's really easy for anyone to understand what you're saying... Thank you so much for your videos!

Excellent video Brian. I admire your the candor and frankness of which you presented this

Thank you for the sense-making and the clear description of solid Catholic social teaching. Also for humbly pointing out where we have grandly and lamentably failed. I feel renewed by listening to you. And will try to follow you as well. Amen.

Thank you Brian! I will be spreading this far and wide although not on Facebook or Twitter because I just this morning deleted my accounts because of the calumny and slander and down right lies perpetuated there. But I do have a Blog and my little youtube channel. Personally I have felt totally abandoned by our Bishops and Clergy in Canada during the past two years.

Dear Brian, Please, please come and work at my children's school (Catholic) and in our Diocese here in Johannesburg, South Africa, where many teachers, deacons and Priests (even Bishops) need to hear this!!! "Courage", dear Clergy!!!

Religion education in Australian Catholic schools is dominated by 'social justice' not always based on Catholic social teaching in the sense that modern, secular ideological "isms" are a significant influence on how it is taught. Thank you for clearly explaining what is Catholic social teaching using helpful examples.

This is the very best commentary I have heard on this issue, thank you!

Thank you, Brian! This was very insightful. I hope you aren’t discouraged by the corruption and apostasy that are so rampant in the Church today. We’ve been warned by our Lady and many saints and seers that these days were coming. We just have to persevere and trust that Jesus will never abandon the Church.

Unfortunately, refusing to go along with the narrative may put us in more than the minority. It may put us in the Gulag.

Amen. Everything you said, I've been thinking the same things--but I never could have said it in the brilliant, elegant, eloquent way you have.

Thank you Brian. Another consideration is that government handouts on such a huge scale, result in the people becoming more reliant on government handouts. This is what gov. wants: to have a population that is dependant, silenced, acquiescent. The rich have become richer. The poor have become poorer. In a way it is like forced poverty for our most vulnerable. Poverty of decision making. Poverty of autonomy. Poverty of freedom.

Outstanding, so important for everyone to understand this, thank you.

I took to reading our copy of the Catechism. In searching for answers here in the U.S. you've been a great source of insight in a foggy environment that isn't clearing itself. Answers that help in our yearnings for authenticity. Our 2 countries are so similar. Maybe differing titles & manner of conducting governmental activities but all in all, the same solidarity is the goal. Thank you for your work. You enlighten & bring thoughtful conversation to the table.

Good stuff, Brian. Thanks for this analysis.

At the difficult time, like now, your voice is very helpful

Thank you for your content. I learn from everything you put out.

One of the components of this problem is.. the interest in being seen to be doing good things, against the real work of calcuating the best way to move forward. It's lovely to announce that you, in the gov't, will be handing out money.. it's a real slodge to discuss and determine the definition of who really needs the assistance (income below N level; business demonstrably impacted to Nth degree; etc.) , how much aid would be the minimum effective, how to pay it (check/cash, voucher for specfic goods or services), where you would get that money, how to determine fraudulent claims and then the will to prosecute fraudulent assistance claims, etc. and figure things out accurately and act to get the aid to people before they suffer massively or the crisis is over.... all that stuff that doesn't produce clicks online or drama in the evening TV news.

Wow.. well said . Thank you thank you so much for this video. I am so sad to see so much evil. God Bless you and your family

0:46 Exactly Brian! Thank-you! And as Mother Angelica said during her infamous lecture 1993: "These Catechisms that say nothing but love your neighbor? No! You gotta love God first!"

Lol…where is the $7B coming from? Love the Jeopardy background music while waiting for a reply.

Incredible video Brian, wonderfully and poignantly articulated. Might very well be your best video to date. Thank you and God bless 🙏

Sorry, too busy praying for Ukraine. My daughter-in-law is from Kiev and her parents live in Kiev. Please, everybody, pray for Ukraine -no country is coming to help them fight in a deadly and unprovoked attack on the entire Country. 🙏✝️

A really great talk. I live in Italy, have had my income halved over the last 2 years. I am now 68 years old and can only get between 30 and 40% less than I was previously able to charge for my work. I have also been a permanent deacon for 34 years and whereas previously I was given something to compensate for the costs of the support work done for the parishes I work in, for 2020 this was reduced by 35 % and for 2021 has gone to zero! But, I don't do what I do for the money, so will obviously carry on - but it would be untrue to say that I feel as you do about the church's response to the situation

The best of yours yet! Right on! AMEN!

One of your best videos... again. Thank you so very much!

Love your videos...that Jeopardy music was hilarious 😂

Your assessment of the Church's cooperation with secular heavy-handed, top-down edicts and, indeed, moral coercion to induce Catholics to accept the morally dubious experimental gene "therapy" is spot on: egregious, fallacious, staggeringly false and self-congratulatory. Thank you for your frank assessment. God bless you and your work

Well crafted look at authentic social justice teaching and action Brian 🙂🙂🙂

Right on Brian, I feel the same way man.

Finally. I had wanted you to address this many months ago.

Would you please consider doing a video on almsgiving, especially on how much to donate (percentage-wise), and if it should come only from income or also from assets. I read where the BVM’s parents every year donated one-third of their assets (crops and animals) to the temple, and another third to the poor, and kept one-third for themselves. Also, where to donate first? Parish? Local poor? how to reconcile the preferential option for the poor versus, perhaps, supporting priestly orders and thus evangelization and the saving of souls? When donating to the poor should we choose local, even if not Catholic, over distant but Catholic mendicant religious orders who only live off alms? Thank you.

Thank you for doing the critical thinking that our feckless leaders have failed to do. May we as a society gain some modicum of integrity, and soon.

Excellent presentation. I agree 100%.

Love your channel.

Well done, Brian. A great service!

Thanks!

Never thought this severely deep about it all. But, excellent talk!

You nailed it!

Never stop making videos, Brian. You are a seemingly rare voice of reason in today's chaos.

Thank you, very helpful

Thank you

Eloquently spoken 🙏🏽

Taking care of the old and the needy is true religion.

Could someone please tell me the name of the canticle playing at the introduction?

Thank you for your courage!

Excellent!

could you tell me the title of the religious chant with which your episodes begin !?

Well done!

Sir Thomas Moore also refused his consent to the Church of England. See the excellent film "A Man For All Seasons" "Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales?" Excellent video btw

I’m glad you used the truthful term, counterfeiting.

Well done Brian.

Excellent talk Brian.

Fantastic video.

Bravo! Well said!

It is still unbelievable to me that the target of the health authorities came down to controlling a persons personal choices. And it happened so fast. I was praying that at least one Bishop would protest the closing of churches. Government’s shutting down religion should not be tolerated. All my decisions about the pandemic mandates are based on Church teaching. Thank goodness for the Magisterium and the Sacraments.

I most certanly sgree with you in this. 🇲🇽⚘

Brian you arent alone in what you are seeing and saying! I read Rerum Novarum not too long ago.

Love your content. But I have a tiny suggestion to make.. It would be great if you drop the intro music which has the Alleluia, until Easter which would follow the Churchs tradition. It makes the Alleluia sound brighter at Easter!!! Pax Christi

Excellent

We are to take care of the poor in SPIRIT. We ignore those in the middle class and upper class because there physical needs are met. The church ignores that they are also spiritually starving. It isn’t right to give the materially poor so much favor spiritually when all need missioned to

God Bless You 🙏

Spot on Brian!!! 🙏👍

BRAVO, sir.. yay verily bravo

Question: How would subsidiarity (larger institutions interfering as little as possible in the affairs of smaller ones) apply to the Church as a whole?? As a convert from Protestantism, the Catholic Church is 'Top down' in a LOT of ways other Christian groups are not... Many Protestant groups are even suspicious of Catholicism BECAUSE it looks so much more communist in its polity.

Priests who try to speak up are cancelled

I know a social justice warrior who loathes traditional Catholicism. He says there's no compassion in putting up altar rails. He also told me to miss Mass for a year

Wait, because I fear the consequence and the responsibility my status, and I fear all the direct warnings of the distraction of wealth, I “want to be a saint”? Whatever I can think of too help is most likely fall short of what is expected, either as an individual or collective. There are no limits to social justice, the point made in the gospel of Matthew is obvious.

Interesting analysis. One critique -- the Henry VIII analogy of this syndrome having happened was a "regional" syndrome among the bishops of the time. It was to some extent "parochial" in proportion to the larger issue before us because the impetus to "do our part" came from the very top of the Church hierarchy instead of regional primates within the leadership. The shear force of the impact of words and images from Francis bludgeoned subsidiaries (i.e. regional consortii of bishops/ bishops' conferences) into spreading that very destructive message thus placing upon the individual (and within the context of the lowest end of the subsidiarity spectrum -- families) that cognitive dissonance to the point of imposing a kind of "guilt" loadstone upon the very consciences of the individuals -- increasing and thus distorting what is otherwise normally a healthy tension between conscience driven action vis a vis magisterial driven action. Thanks for your exposition on the inseparability between solidarity and subsidiarity.

I had Adrian Dominican nuns in the sixties. They and cardinal dearden were pushing this. In my heart i so the wrong, i stood up and spoke my thoughts. This disturbed these nuns.

CCC 1885 certainly can’t mean “all forms of collectivism” when it says “all forms of collectivism” because monasteries are, by definition, collectivist where you own nothing of yourself and it is owned collectively by the community Ah I see you clarified (sorry I listened once then went back to catch the reference). That being said “state” collectivism might not be permissible per the Catechism (though I think we’d both agree the Catechism isn’t infallible) so smaller levels of collectivism are well within the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity

Exactly! Nothing more to say.

The concept of subsidiary and solidarity in practice in a society or a corporation is simply this, authority and work is delegated to lower levels of organization which they perform in accordance with the parameters set by higher authorities. Higher levels of authority set common goals and and objectives for either a society or a corporation and then delegate work or functions to lower levels of organization and set parameters for decision making in executing these functions. The lower levels execute their work or function and make decisions autonomously but are held accountable for their work and decisions to the higher levels of authority in accordance with the goals and objectives set by the higher authorities.

Guess I’d add further, what upset me was yes, the betrayal from the Catholic Church. Very little I ever heard tempering the State initiatives against these Christian principles. And that if there were voices, they were largely from Protestant communities or leaders

Inflation not only makes things get more expensive,. which is easy to notice. It also prevents things getting cheaper, which is much harder to see. It's been going on for a long time already.

God bless!

Check out the book, “Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is” by Michael Novak and Paul Adams.

That’s hilarious and sad. Politicians can’t even tell people where they are getting the money from. Let me venture a guess here: from taxes paid to the federal government along with the country borrowing more money to go further into debt which will then be the burden of future generations to pay.

1) Subsidiarity is about respecting the appropriate functions of each level of community, given the essential nature of each level; it is not about maximizing independence at the lowest possible level. 2) When the gov't prints money, it's not "fake" money, it's "fiat" money. Understand, that's just fundamentally our system: fiat currency. 3) The rise of prices in the housing market is obviously not a direct function of general inflation, so we shouldn't be conflating these issues. The question the housing issue raises seems to be, are you (Brian) then advocating gov't intervention in the housing market? Those are complex issues that the Church doesn't have any actual ready-made answers for. All the Church has to offer is vague gesturing towards solidarity and subsidiarity. And always remember: the Church, from her very nature, has a limited domain of competence -- as recent events have made abundantly clear. That's an important part of the "social justice" teaching of the Church and one clear application of the principle of subsidiarity. Often prudence requires just saying, "I don't know; I have no competence on this question."

Hello Brian, are you happy for people to upload this to their own KZfaq Channels?

Thank you. What you said is true and accurate.

Very good principles/lenses to look through. I guess there’s probably scenarios when these principles sway one towards the other, for example during war. But the threat posed from the V I think was WAY overstated such that subsidiarity could be put to the side for many. What’s the inverse of subsidiarity? A principle I see emerge from the Bible is family first, rising to God’s people first. Sort of fitting to the season of lent we are coming into - we are to first attend to the needs of our family, and then give to others (not including tithe which is a given). We are to push and dip into attending to our and our family needs through almsgiving, especially during lent but at other times as the needs arise too. And then jubilee every 7 years. This bus moving into another topic area, the one I was trying to pin to this specific discussion was the principle of ‘family first’ as it pertains or works into the concepts of solidarity and subsidiarity

Thank you for calling out this hypocrisy

Thank you for bringing this specific topic up on your platform. The Catechism of the Catholic Church text should be on the bookshelves of every Catholic home. Pick it up. Read it. Do God’s will. Let’s worship Christ not politicians. Thank you for this topic Brian.

I love the Saint maker so much it’s the first planner I’ve ever Stuck to

They really couldn't answer a question as basic as where the money was coming from? That's really embarrassing!

Bravo 👏

Very good brother 👍 Praise the name of Jesus christ ♥️

Hello Brian you should check out The Heralds of the Gospel and Plinio Correa de Olivera books