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Explores Victor Cathrein's (1845-1931) critique of Henry George's economic theory in Progress and Poverty (1954 edition). Cathrein was a Swiss-born Jesuit writer on topics ranging from ethics, jurisprudence, & political economy, to religion, & he was likely the most influential critic of George in Continental Europe. His criticism of George & Emile de Laveleye were combined in The Champions of Agrarian Socialism (1889). Much of his criticism against George paints him as muddled, inconsistent, & ignorant of true economic concepts. His arguments are drawn from political economy, moral law, & theology. Although George's claims that his single tax on land rents would totally eliminate poverty may be overblown, he does not present a utopia, but the opportunity to obtain wealth through exertion. This is based more solidly on Biblical principles than are Catherein's arguments for first-occupancy theory. George argued that God was not the author of human misery & want, but the provider of economic laws that could allow justice & freedom of opportunity. L. A. Hoffman