Juliana Hatfield - This Lonely Love

..it is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry.  So, too, it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and a disturbance of right order, to transfer to the larger and higher collectivity functions which can be performed and provided for by lesser and subordinate bodies.  Inasmuch as every social activity should, by its very nature, prove a help to members of the body social, it should never destroy or absorb them.

Pope Pius XI,1931
*No. 79 in Paulist translation
Decentralism and Subsidiarity: Applications to Society and Culture