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1. “It is applied Christianity”

... the principles of the Church's social doctrine. In the writings of Louis Even and Alain Pilote, we see how wonderfully Economic Democracy embraces the Church's principles of social justice. Louis Even, ...

Created on 01 October 2024

2. The Economic Democracy solution

Having established the shortcomings of the current financial system, Douglas devised an ingenious system to correct the flaws and ensure that the economic system achieved its goal, which is the satisfaction ...

Created on 01 October 2024

3. The shortcomings of today’s financial system

Before treating a patient, a doctor will first make a diagnosis to ensure the correct remedy is applied. The same applies to economics. Before he devised the remedy of Economic Democracy, Scottish engineer ...

Created on 01 October 2024

4. Louis Even’s immense legacy

He clearly shared Douglas'vision and also passed on to us a great love of the Church September 2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Louis Even, founder of MICHAEL and Vers Demain (its French-language ...

Created on 01 October 2024

5. God makes himself present through the Eucharist

... for justice. As we know, the final victory belongs to God, and is already assured. So let's have courage and  bear witness to the truth for the coming of the Kingdom of God. Alain Pilote, Editor    ...

Created on 01 August 2024

6. Governments must create their own money

A few questions answered Regular readers of MICHAEL will have noted that the first expectation of the Pilgrims of St. Michael, or White Berets of the Louis Even Institute, is that the federal government ...

Created on 01 August 2024

7. New Economic Democracy graduates in Cameroon

... became a reality. The certificates were awarded after more than one year's training. This is an ideal opportunity to thank the Institute's President, Miss Caya, Mr. Alain Pilote, our trainer and guide, and ...

Created on 01 August 2024

8. What is the future of our movement?

The charism of Louis Even: Education by Alain Pilote The founders' intentions The MICHAEL movement faces challenges for the future that we must tackle now. In May, the directors and active members ...

Created on 01 August 2024

9. Justice means giving everyone their due

What is owed to everyone is a social dividend by Alain Pilote We have just read on page 12 of this issue of MICHAEL that according to Saint Thomas Aquinas — and according to the Catechism of the Catholic ...

Created on 01 May 2024

10. Messages of Our Lady in Akita

... of our heavenly Mother.                                A. Pilote The beginning A few pious religious sisters, known as the Institute of the Handmaids of the Holy Eucharist, led a quiet, hidden life ...

Created on 01 August 2023

11. The cause of poverty amidst plenty

... (prepared jointly with Mr. Alain Pilote) at the symposium in Cameroon in June, 2023, on behalf of the Louis Even Institute: Acknowledgements Firstly, we would like to thank Most Rev. Samuel Kleda, ...

Created on 01 August 2023

12. Report on my tour in Cameroon

... conference, and it was decided that Mr. Philbert Bagilimana would represent the Institute at this conference, in addition to a video presentation by the Directors  of MICHAEL— Marcelle Caya and Alain Pilote. ...

Created on 01 August 2023

13. The end of economics: goods must meet the needs of individuals

Since 2006, study sessions are organized in Rougemont on economic democracy (or social credit), seen in the light of the social doctrine of the Church. This teaching is given by Alain Pilote, who used ...

Created on 01 August 2023

14. The battle of MICHAEL

To promote a better world and a more Christian society The most urgent reform is to correct the financial system by Alain Pilote The very first issue of "Vers Demain" (in English, "Towards Tomorrow") ...

Created on 25 April 2023

15. Let’s put our trust in Almighty God

There is no shortage of concerns these days. Inflation is rampant at levels unseen for 40 years. Money is being printed as never before. Gas prices have never been higher as green energy policies impact ...

Created on 01 August 2022

16. Subsidiarity, according to the teachings of the Church

... and particularly its importance in regard to parental authority or primacy, which governments today are not only undermining, but abolishing. by Alain Pilote In his first Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas ...

Created on 01 January 2022

17. Economic Democracy Not Through Politicians

... in society can be achieved without the gift of self. And a great cause like Social Credit, or economic democracy, is no exception. Alain Pilote Two contradictory terms Question — Could Social ...

Created on 01 August 2021

18. The Divine Will Revealed by Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

... of the third "Fiat", sanctification. A. Pilote Here are excerpts from the booklet "I Bring You Tidings of Great Joy", by Father Pablo Martin, which gives a selection of passages on the Divine Will, taken ...

Created on 01 August 2021

19. Financing Consumers

... in business, the producer manufactures the goods which receive the most ‘votes’. Alain Pilote Social Credit monetary policy holds that individual sovereignty is not a status reserved for a privileged ...

Created on 01 January 2021

20. after the collapse of the economy comes the "Great Reset

by Alain Pilote In 2008, Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff during Barack Obama’s presidency, stated: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things ...

Created on 01 October 2020

21. The Pandemic of Control

... of Control. 1 A. Pilote by Mark Mallett Overnight, the entire world began harmoniously adopting pre-prepared phrases such as “self-isolation” and “social-distancing.” The idea of quarantining the ...

Created on 01 August 2020

22. Two objections to the Dividend: Laziness and Communism

... workers. No one is penalized; everyone wins. Employed persons are paid their wages in addition to their Dividend. Alain Pilote The following is taken from “Le Syllabaire du Crédit Social” (an ABC of ...

Created on 01 August 2020

23. Father Coughlin, a Great Apostle of Social Justice

... money system has never been as urgent. Alain Pilote Money! Questions and Answers While the National Union for Social Justice appreciates the splendid efforts which noble statesmen have made in the ...

Created on 01 January 2020

24. “Economic Democracy Is Magnificent!”

... he took action instead of hand wringing and lamenting that “There is poverty, it is tragic!” Social Credit is wonderful. I repeat the words of [study session instructor] Alain Pilote that it is about “creating ...

Created on 01 October 2019

25. “But Except you do Penance, you Shall all Likewise Perish”

... the Catholic Church called “The Now Word, reflections for our times“. Posted on July 11, 2019, it is titled “When the Earth cries out”. Alain Pilote by Mark Mallett I have resisted writing this ...

Created on 01 October 2019

26. One does not dress any more, one undresses

... today? It is the will of Satan, that is why. Alain Pilote Modesty is a politically incorrect subject today, invoking fear that someone will be offended if it is raised. Nevertheless, it is a subject ...

Created on 01 August 2019

27. Future Prospects for the Pilgrims of St Michael

Social Credit is a Means to Save Souls The following excerpts are taken from a speech given by MICHAEL editor Alain Pilote, during a conference held in Rougemont on Sunday March 24, 2019. by Alain ...

Created on 01 May 2019

28. A Congress of Passionate Apostles

... is diabolical and changing it will require divine power. In his book, titled Economic Democracy, Alain Pilote quotes St. John Paul II on Christian duty: “Anyone wishing to renounce the difficult yet ...

Created on 01 January 2019

29. “We Came, We Saw and We Believed”

... as I had taught it at Kinshasa’s Catholic University in the DRC for nine years before being named Bishop. “Although I had some knowledge of the Social Doctrine, I found our brilliant teacher, Alain Pilote, ...

Created on 01 May 2018

30. Do you wish to become a saint?

Do you wish to become a saint? "Am I cut out for this?" one might ask. Does God really expect me to become a saint? Will this not mean many sacrifices and a boring life? Not so. It truly is God's will ...

Created on 01 May 2018

31. Was the World Created by God?

... like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth". Alain Pilote In concluding, we present the testimony of 25 renowned scientists who, unlike Julie Payette, recognize that ...

Created on 01 January 2018

32. The love of money is at the root of all evil

... In October 2013, we were pleased when he gave Pope Francis a copy of Alain Pilote’s book “Economic Democracy in 10 Lessons”. On September 29, 2017, which was the feast day of the Archangels Michael, ...

Created on 01 October 2017

33. Canonization of Jacinta and Francisco Marto

... these two young children lived and practiced the demands of God’s Mother, thus becoming models to be imitated not only by other children, but by people of all ages around the world. A. Pilote Francisco ...

Created on 13 May 2017

34. Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

... Even to this great saint. Alain Pilote At the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate, on October 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II proclaimed a “Year of the Rosary” and signed the Apostolic ...

Created on 01 May 2016

35. “Social Credit is a light upon my path”

... even as a teacher and as Rector of a University. So, through these weeks of study, well directed by Mr. Alain Pilote, and through all the substantial elements that were offered including the icing on ...

Created on 30 April 2016

36. The centenary of Social Credit

Douglas conceived Social Credit in 1917 The same year as the Apparitions in Fatima   Clifford Hugh Douglas (1879-1952) The Social Crediters of MICHAEL will begin their year of apostolate ...

Created on 30 April 2016

37. “I came and I saw!”

... Mr. Pilote and of all the other speakers have taught us how we are being exploited. Without being a mathematician, when I cast an empirical look at my past and present life, I can see that I am being exploited, ...

Created on 01 March 2016

38. A Basic Income through a Social Dividend

... hundreds of articles on this topic that can also be found on its website. (Alain Pilote’s book “Economic Democracy in Ten Lessons” carries a chapter on the dividend.) Billions of dollars were used to bailout ...

Created on 01 March 2016

39. Let us not remain indifferent to the suffering of our brethren

In his message for the World Day of Peace, January 1st, 2016, Pope Francis warned us that one of the greatest dangers to peace today is widespread indifference, which prevents us from seeing our neighbor ...

Created on 01 January 2016

40. A Better World Through Social Credit

... write the introduction to the Italian version of Alain Pilote’s “Economic Democracy viewed in the light of the social doctrine of the Church”: Bishop Bertin with our Directress Therese Tardif ...

Created on 01 January 2016

41. “Be merciful just as your Father is merciful”

The return of the prodigal son, by Joseph Kastner, Erloserkirche Church, Vienna   by Alain Pilote, Editor As you will have noticed, the theme of this issue of MICHAEL is the extraordinary ...

Created on 01 October 2015

42. Encyclical Letter Laudato Si

... on the need for a change of mentality in regard to the environmental problem. Due to space, we’ll just give the main elements here. Good reading! Alain Pilote by Pope Francis 1. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ ...

Created on 01 May 2015

43. Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII

... of MICHAEL, Melvin Sickler and Alain Pilote, in Rome in 2010. The monopolization of credit Father Drinkwater recorded that a committee called the Union of Fribourg, in Switzerland, had prepared ...

Created on 01 January 2015

44. Speech of Bishop Mathieu Madega of Gabon

... the Church, based on the book by Alain Pilote, “The Social Credit proposals explained in ten lessons.” More than 50 priests and faithful of Africa and other countries attended the session, including ...

Created on 01 October 2014

45. The Family is the First Cell of Society

... (Recommended book: The Social Credit Proposals Explained in 10 Lessons, by Alain Pilote. www.michaeljournal.org) To be effective in changing our own society we need to begin by examining our conscience, ...

Created on 01 October 2014

46. Pope Francis: “World War III has already begun”

2014 marks the centenary of the start of World War I, “the war to end all wars.” Unfortunately, other wars followed thereafter, and the future looks bleak for humanity. On August 18, 2014, during a ...

Created on 01 October 2014

47. Heaven does not leave us helpless

The Virgin Mary, with Jesus and St. Michael the Archangel, giving the Rosary to St. Dominic.  Statue in the church of Zabbar, Malta. Photo: Richard Faenza International tensions increasingly ...

Created on 01 October 2014

48. Alain Pilote

Alain Pilote has been the editor of the English edition of MICHAEL for several years. Twice a year we organize a week of study of the social doctrine of the Church and its application and Mr. Pilote is ...

Created on 07 August 2014

49. Social Credit Economics

... Credit Secretariat. And then Dr. Heydorn wrote: “Last, but not least, I wish to express my gratitude in a special way to Alain Pilote and the Pilgrims of Saint Michael (Rougemont, Quebec). In early 2002, ...

Created on 01 March 2014

50. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendo

... important duty for today,” said Benedict XVI. Here is a summary of that encyclical that was published in the Jan.-Feb. 1994 issue of MICHAEL: by Alain Pilote On October 5, 1993, Pope John Paul II’s ...

Created on 01 March 2014

51. Three books on Social Credit

(Books)

... in 2019 and written by Alain Pilote,  (232 pages).   This title is the basis of the annual Study Week offered in Rougemont, Canada. In This Age of Plenty, 2nd Edition, published in 2019 and written ...

Created on 30 July 2017

52. Economic Democracy

(Books)

Viewed in the light of the social doctrine of the Church; a study prepared by Alain Pilote on the occasion of the week of study.  The Social Credit idea may raise many questions among our new readers, ...

Created on 30 July 2017

53. Economic Democracy

(Product)

And viewed in the light of the social doctrine of the Church; a study prepared by Alain Pilote on the occasion of the week of study.  The Social Credit idea may raise many questions among our new readers, ...

Created on 21 December 2016

54. Three books on Social Credit

(Product)

... world government and the total loss of our freedom. These three books are: Economic Democracy, viewed in the light of the Social Doctrine of the Church (151 pages); a study prepared by Alain Pilote ...

Created on 21 December 2016