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The photograph below shows Most Rev. Mathieu
Madega Lebouakehan, Bishop of Mouila in Gabon
(and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Port-
Gentil) giving Pope Francis a copy in Spanish of our
book The Social Credit proposals explained in 10
lessons (in Spanish, Cursillo, or short course on the
Social Doctrine of the church and its application in
economics), on October 9, 2013, at the end of the
General Audience held every Wednesday in Saint
Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
This book is the basis for our study sessions held
twice a year in Rougemont on Social Credit and the
social doctrine of the Church, sessions in which more
than fifty African bishops have already participated.
Bishop Madega attended this session in Rougemont
for the first time in August, 2012, and then said a few
months later, at the Synod of Bishops in Rome on the
new evangelization: “Social Credit is a financial sys-
tem free of debt at the service of the human being.
This structure inspired by the Holy Spirit will help the
Church and all mankind.”
Bishop Madega attended another session in
Rougemont in August, 2013, presentiing himself
some lessons. (See page 9.) He has even undertaken
to have this book of 10 lessons translated into Ital-
ian, to facilitate its distribution among ecclesiastical
circles inside the Vatican.
Scottish engineer Clifford Hugh Douglas, the
founder of the Social Credit principles, said that Social
Credit could be summarized in two words: applied
Christianity. One can read at the end of Lesson 1 of
this book these words of Geoffrey Dobbs:
“The social credit (without capital letters) means...
the faith or confidence which binds any society togeth-
er — the mutual trust or belief in each other without
which fear is substituted for trust as the ‘cement’ of
society... Though no society can exist without some
social credit, it is at its maximum where the Christian
religion is practized, and at its minimum where it is
denied and derided.
So promoting Christian principles is not wander-
ing from social credit; on the contrary, it is actually
part of it, it is its core message !
That’s what each issue of MI-
CHAEL explains, including this
one. Happy reading!
Alain Pilote, editor
Editorial
Social Credit is applied Christianity
Copyright Photo Service – L’Osservatore Romano 2013
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Contents
3 Social Credit is applied Christianity
Alain Pilote
4 Pope denounces the idolatry of money
Pope Francis
5 No to an unjust economic system
Pope Francis
6 The importance of the money question
Louis Even
9 “Wake up mankind, refuse usury”
Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan
10 “The time has come to stand up”
Bishop Cyr Nestor Yapaupa
12 Why consecrate oneself to Mary?
St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort
16 The message of Our Lady of Fatima
18 No to Pauline Marois’ secular charter
Alain Pilote
22 The separation of Church and State
Archbishop Christian Lepine
23 Render to Ceasar what is Caesar’s
Louis Even
28 Our Lady of Guadalupe
Louis Even
34 Little Nellie of Holy God
Anne Marie Jacques
36 The U.S. Federal Reserve
Yves Jacques
40 Blessed Hildegard Burjan
Dom Antoine Marie, osb
44 Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Anne Marie Jacques
46 Cconversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne
Anne Marie Jacques
48 Consecration of the world to Mary
Pope Francis
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