I've been enjoying the term "decentralized" get used more and more. It's so close to the ideal of subsidiarity that you'd find in Distributist circles, albeit approached from a much more pragmatist angle. "Federation" mimics the autocephalous nature of the East.
"Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do" - Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno
I've been enjoying the term "decentralized" get used more and more. It's so close to the ideal of subsidiarity that you'd find in Distributist circles, albeit approached from a much more pragmatist angle. "Federation" mimics the autocephalous nature of the East.
"Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do" - Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno