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1. The Spirituality of Louis Even

This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Louis Even. It is good to explore the depth of the spirituality that enlivened the man who founded the Pilgrims of St. Michael. Without his solid faith ...

Created on 01 March 2024

2. Saint Marie of the Incarnation, mother of the Canadian Church

Among the saints and blesseds of Canada who helped found the Catholic Church in the country, two figures stand out: Most Rev. François de Laval, the first bishop of Quebec and North America, and Marie ...

Created on 20 February 2024

3. Saint Marguerite d’Youville

Mother of Universal Charity The founders of MICHAEL have always had a special devotion to Saint Marguerite d'Youville (1701-1771), foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the ...

Created on 01 January 2024

4. Economic Democracy is a response to current problems

If we look at the news, we see that the majority of issues are related to money, whether it's the rising cost of living, the lack of housing, or even the destruction of the environment and the squandering ...

Created on 01 October 2023

5. The most urgent reform

Many things are not going well in today's society, but if we look closely at the news, the problems that are making the headlines — inflation, the housing crisis, the destruction of the environment — all ...

Created on 01 October 2023

6. Ecconomic Democracy and Foreign Trade

The following text is taken from Chapter 33 of Louis Even's book, In This Age of Plenty. In a question and answer format, Louis Even explores foreign trade. In this essay published in Vers Demain (the ...

Created on 01 October 2023

7. The cause of poverty amidst plenty

The Louis Even Institute for Social Justice explains the cause of poverty amidst plenty and the solution of Economic Democracy This is the text of the presentation that Mr. Philbert Bagilimana gave ...

Created on 01 August 2023

8. The importance of the money issue

The following article was first published in the Cahiers du Crédit Social in August 1939, just before the first issue of Vers Demain (the French-language version of MICHAEL) was published. At the bottom ...

Created on 01 May 2023

9. “A silly, inexplicable, inhuman dictatorship”

A dictatorship over public institutions There are hundreds of pot holes in the streets of Montreal, and in the same city thousands of unemployed people are looking for work. But both the pot holes remain ...

Created on 01 May 2023

10. 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

11. Public budgets and tax bondage

This article was written by Louis Even in 1961 when Canada’s population was 18,273,000. The population of the United States was 179,000,000. This article should be studied by every political leader at ...

Created on 01 March 2023

12. A Providential Encounter With Pope Francis

... Outside the Walls Basilica. Then everything changed — I believe Saint Joseph arranged a mission for me to meet Pope Francis. I woke early that morning and decided to take a walk before breakfast and ...

Created on 01 January 2023

13. The mission of MICHAEL: “To educate on the causes of poverty and the ways of combatting them”

Here are excerpts from the speech that Marcelle Caya, the new Director General of the Louis Even Institute, addressed to the Annual Congress of MICHAEL in September 2022: It is certainly a great joy, ...

Created on 01 January 2023

14. Should we fear digital identity and digital currency?

Facial recognition systems and digital currency make totalitarian control within reach The Government of Quebec announced the creation of the Department of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology in October ...

Created on 01 August 2022

15. The Problems of Funding a Universal Basic Income by Taxation

The following was presented by the Louis Even Institute for Social Justice at the 18th Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress, held June 15-16, 2019 at the Silberman School of Social ...

Created on 01 May 2022

16. It is Urgent to end the Scandal of Poverty

Correcting the Financial System is Society’s most Urgent Reform No one can remain indifferent to the problems of poverty and hunger in the world today. Every day, an estimated 40,000 children die from ...

Created on 01 May 2022

17. Our freedoms are disappearing with anti-COVID measures

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is chief legal counsel and chairman of Children's Health Defense in the U.S.A. He has authored several books, including The Real Anthony Fauci, published in November, 2021. RFK Jr. ...

Created on 01 January 2022

18. An effective strategy against inflation

A discount on prices granted to merchants People complain about inflation. Governments want solutions yet their measures are ineffective and inflation persists. What exactly is inflation? Older dictionaries ...

Created on 01 January 2022

19. A new slavery; Canada and the New World Order

An interview with Pierre Marchildon on Radio Maryja in Poland We would like to present to our readers a transcription of a radio program that was broadcasted on the Catholic station Radio Maryja of ...

Created on 20 September 2021

20. The 1935 Alberta Experiment

Some people may have thought — and others may still think it today — that promoting a "Social Credit party" is the best way to promote Social Credit, but C.H. Douglas and Louis Even thought the exact opposite. ...

Created on 01 August 2021

21. Economic Democracy Not Through Politicians

But Humble Apostles Who Bring About God’s Action One of the obstacles that MICHAEL has been facing for a year or two is the emergence of a system of control and espionage in Communist China called "social ...

Created on 01 August 2021

22. Capitalism’s Financial Flaw can be Fixed

Capitalism, not Communism, published in this edition of the magazine, was written by Louis Even in 1971. He states that it is the financial system at fault, not capitalism, per se; that all citizens would ...

Created on 01 March 2021

23. The Great Reset: Reality or a Conspiracy?

We published an article on the Great Reset, the World Economic Forums’ (WEF) plan for the world, in the October/November/December 2020 edition of MICHAEL. The article discussed Founder and Executive Chairman’s ...

Created on 01 March 2021

24. Financing Consumers

The following article was written by Louis Even in 1936. Note that a new stove cost $48 at the time. Even so, the diagnosis of the problem and the proposed solution remain valid in 2021. We must finance ...

Created on 01 January 2021

25. For a Better Understanding of Social Credit

To print money... with no limits? Social Credit would put an end to the international bankers’ control of economic life. They fear Social Credit to such an extent that they use every trick in the book ...

Created on 01 January 2021

26. A Social Credit monetary system is necessary for a healthy economy

Developed by Major Clifford Hugh Douglas and explained by Louis Even Readers of this publication, MICHAEL, may be curious by the ideas expressed herein regarding economics and finance. The ideas are ...

Created on 01 August 2020

27. The Pandemic of Control

Reflecting on the measures taken to counter the coronavirus, which was designated a pandemic more than four months ago by the World Health Organization (WHO), many people are asking questions pertaining ...

Created on 01 August 2020

28. After the Warning and World War III

Father Michel Rodrigue (right) is a priest, exorcist and the founder and Abbott of a new religious order, begun in 2012: The Apostolic Fraternity of St. Benedict Joseph Labre in the diocese of Amos in ...

Created on 01 August 2020

29. The Social Dividend is the best form of Universal Basic Income

With the forced cessation of most jobs since the start of the lockdown following the coronavirus pandemic, governments in several countries have put in place emergency programs to help those who have ...

Created on 01 May 2020

30. Canadian government deficit catapulted by spending to unprecedented levels

Since all money is created as a debt it is impossible to get out of debt! We knew it was coming. With the astronomical expenditures made by the Canadian government to come to the aid of citizens and ...

Created on 01 May 2020

31. The Spirituality of Louis Even

It is good to explore the depth of spirituality that enlivened Louis Even, founder of the Pilgrims of St. Michael. Without his solid faith in God and an immense love for his neighbour, Louis Even would ...

Created on 01 January 2020

32. “Economic Democracy Is Magnificent!”

Fr. Henri Boulad attended our Week of Study in Rougemont, Canada in September (see his sermon on page 5 of this issue of MICHAEL). Here are some of his introductory remarks offered on the first day of ...

Created on 01 October 2019

33. Money Must be Created by the Island’s Inhabitants

for Exchanges Among the Island’s Inhabitants! The following article, written by Mrs. Gilberte Côté-Mercier, is a summary of Louis Even’s tale, “The Money Myth Exploded”, which helps us understand how ...

Created on 01 August 2019

34. The Origins of the Social Credit Movement Founded by Louis Even

Louis Even wrote the following article in 1964. He left it unsigned and referred to himself in the third person. It was in the later months of 1934 that Louis Even read a book on Social Credit for the ...

Created on 01 May 2019

35. Who was Clifford Hugh Douglas?

At the root of Social Credit was a man of genius, a Scot, Clifford Hugh Douglas. Born in 1879, he was the son of Hugh Douglas and Louisa Hordern. He graduated from Cambridge University with an honours ...

Created on 01 May 2019

36. A Congress of Passionate Apostles

During our annual Congress held in Rougemont, Canada, this past September 29-30 and October 1st 2018, we gave the floor to our most fervent apostles and the most successful solicitors of subscriptions ...

Created on 01 January 2019

37. The Charisma of Louis Even’s Work

Educating the Population and Offering the Gift of Self Reflection, Study and Action MICHAEL was launched in 1953 and published its 400th edition this year. Its French language counterpart, VERS DEMAIN, ...

Created on 01 November 2018

38. Unpayable Debts Bear Bad Fruit

Debt-free Financing through Social Credit Materially speaking, which is the richest country in the world? Everyone would agree the world's most prosperous country is the United States of America. The ...

Created on 01 September 2018

39. Why money matters

This article was first published in the August, 1939 edition of "Les Cahiers du Crédit Social". The root of all problems Why does MICHAEL insist on discussing matters related to money? It is because ...

Created on 01 May 2018

40. What is due to everyone is a dividend

Justice is the will to render each one his due In his "Summa Theologica", St. Thomas Aquinas defines justice as the constant and perpetual will to render each one his due. For example, what is due to ...

Created on 01 May 2018

41. For a Better World we need a Social Credit Society

We Have Lost Sight of the Goals In these modern times, the world has turned away from the fundamental questions. We have lost sight of the purposes of political life, economics and of life in society. ...

Created on 01 January 2018

42. Money at the service of the people to use their own productive capacity

Owner or vassal? If the owner of a house could not enter or leave it without first asking and then paying for permission from a private agency to do so, would he, in fact, be the owner of his house? ...

Created on 01 October 2017

43. Basic Income vs Universal Basic Income, vs a Social Dividend to All

In this age of plenty - Editor's Note Basic Income is the talk of the day: 4.24 million entries on Google for “Basic Income” alone, another 439 000 for “Universal Basic Income” and 1.87 million entries ...

Created on 09 March 2017

44. Social Credit and the Social Doctrine of the Church - Part II

Economic Democracy - Lesson 10 The subject that we treated in the previous lesson was the first of four basic principles, regarding the primacy of human beings over mere systems, as viewed through the ...

Created on 07 November 2016

45. Social Credit and the Social Doctrine of the Church - Part I

Economic Democracy - Lesson 9 Social Credit: applied Christianity Clifford Hugh Douglas once said that Social Credit is in essence applied Christianity. The Social Doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Created on 04 November 2016

46. The solution: debt-free money issued by society

Economic Democracy - Lesson 4 The cost of servicing the public debt increases proportionally to the debt, since it is a percentage of this same debt. To finance its debt, the Federal Government sells ...

Created on 03 November 2016

47. Banks create money as a debt

Economic Democracy - Lesson 3 Money begins in the banks In the previous lesson, we gave the following example: Let us suppose I am a businessman. I want to set up a new factory. All I need is money. ...

Created on 01 November 2016

48. Poverty amidst plenty - The birth and death of money

Economic Democracy - Lesson 2 Do goods exist? Do they exist in sufficient quantity to satisfy all of the consumers’ basic needs? Are we short of anything in our country to satisfy the temporal needs ...

Created on 29 October 2016

49. Louis Even

Louis Even and the Early History of the Pilgrims of St. Michael Louis Even was the 14th of 16 children born to Pierre Even and Marguerite Vitré on La Poulanière farm, in Montfort-sur-Meu, in Brittany, ...

Created on 29 October 2016

50. The National Credit

In this age of plenty - Chapter 17 It is alright to say that each man, woman and child, as member of an organized society, is entitled to the benefits of association. Also, it is exact to say that these ...

Created on 17 October 2016