Archive for Category: "Catholic Social Teaching"
What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?
Does Centesimus Annus really endorse the ‘free’ market? Thomas Storck demonstrates how Pope John Paul II’s encyclical not only fails to endorse laissez-faire but how the document is fundamentally in accord with traditional social doctrine.
An Introduction to Distributism
The servile system has already begun. Indeed, it is already here. The differences between a “socialist” Europe and a “capitalist” America are merely differences of degree rather than of kind.
A Giant Among Catholic Economists
Heinrich Pesch, 1854-1926, a German Jesuit priest and economist, is largely unknown in the U.S., but arguably he is one of the most important and influential Catholic thinkers of the past few centuries.