The Church and the Depression by Rev. James M. Gillis, C. S. P. Impr. 1934, 72 page booklet. Written as a set of seven addresses given over the course of seven Sundays, Rev. James brings to attention the cruciality of the Church within the economic system of the United States. Despite being set in the Depression era, the author has managed to make this booklet relevant even today as he lays down foundations for avoiding another Depression. From the first address, “It does seem to me that what we need is not warnings to “pipe down” but commands to “cry out”; not taps but reveille ... not soothing syrup, laudanum, the hashish of contentment with a system that has again and again eventuated in vast and even universal economic demoralization ... Agree or disagree with that opinion, I hope we shall all agree upon this, that at least Catholicism is no Siamese twin of Capitalism, for the day may come when Captialism will perish, but the Church has the promise of God that she shall endure until the consummation of the world.”\