Post Tagged with: "Rerum Novarum"
A Resolved Tension
The question, then, becomes whether the position held by Woods and those like him hold up in light of what the Church has said regarding her own competency in these matters. In brief, do Catholic libertarians of this kind speak of the Church as the Church speaks of herself?
Toward Social Thinking
It is quite evident that this existing state of things is substantially what Socialism is condemned for proposing to bring in! Moreover, it is equally evident that the state of things condemned by the Pope is not due to Socialism; but if attributable to any party, then to Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans or Democrats.
A Time to Rebuild on Firmer Foundations II
It is like saying: “Thank you very much for the private property God, but now go back to heaven and let us do with it as we please.” This is the classic enlightenment view of God as clock maker who winds up the world and then detaches from it. That is not the true God, the God that the Church proclaims.
The Education of E.F. Schumacher
He spent the last few remaining years of his life basking in the reflected glory of his best-selling book, secure in the knowledge that he had radically changed the outlook of millions of people. By 1977 his views had become so popular that he was invited by President Carter for a half-hour talk in the White House and the President was keen to be photographed holding a copy of Small is Beautiful.
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.