E. F. Schumacher - Convert

As ever, Joseph Pearce illuminates the life and work of a notable figure who was led by the grace of conversion into full communion with Mother Church, philosopher, economist, neo-distributist, E. F. Schumacher. His daughter, Pearce relates, gave perhaps the most poignant tribute to her father:

Amidst the laudatory valedictions his conversion to Roman Catholicism late in life was seemingly lost. Perhaps it was overlooked, forgotten or merely considered irrelevant. It is certain, however, that Schumacher considered his conversion of supreme importance. This can be seen from the fact that he considered his spiritual work, A Guide for the Perplexed, to be his most important achievement.

'Pop handed me A Guide for the Perplexed on his deathbed, five days before he died,' says his daughter. He told her 'this is what my life has been leading to'. Yet when she began researching her biography of her father a lot of people were 'astounded' when they discovered his conversion. 'They hadn't realized that he had become a Catholic. They thought it was a real let-down, a betrayal'.'

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