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Gregory the Great; and the utterances of St. Basil, St. Ambrose, and St. Jerome are similarly examined in 'The Alleged Socialism of the Church Fathers, by Dr. John A. Ryan. The patristic texts are also fully examined by Abbé Calippe in 'Le Caractère sociale de la Propriété' in La Semaine Sociale de France, 1909, p. 111.
Christianity considered it a counsel of perfection for a man to deprive himself of his goods; it did not abrogate the right of anybody. The same conclusion is reached by the Abbé Calippe in an excellent article published in La Semaine Sociale de France, 1909.