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Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching Discontinued whose call to live aBY DALE AHLQUIST One of the most misunderstood and misrepresented elements of the Catholic Church is her social teaching. It is all too often misconstrued and even held hostage by speculative economic theories and partisan politics. When G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and their colleagues endeavored to promote the ideas of property ownership and independence one hundred years ago, it was frequently misinterpreted due to the terminology used. Here,