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The Modern Phase
Communism denies God, denies the dignity and therefore the freedom of the human soul, and openly enslaves men to what it calls “the State” but what is in practice a body of favoured officials.
Centesimus Annus Part Two
Catholic moral teaching simply cannot accept the market according to its own logic, that is, according to a logic which sees the market and market solutions as able to take care of all or most human and social difficulties and needs.
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.
The Transformation of Socialism
Just as a State might own all the guns lest people should shoot each other, so this State would own all the gold and land lest they should cheat or rack rent or exploit each other. It seems extraordinarily simple and even obvious; and so it is. It is too obvious to be true. But while it is obvious, it seems almost incredible that anybody ever thought it optimistic.
A Time to Rebuild on Firmer Foundations
Faced with an unprecedented economic crisis, many may be willing to consider ideas and principles which under more prosperous times were ignored. The Catholic philosophical and intellectual tradition offers a comprehensive system of economic thought which provides much material for critiquing the reigning economic philosophy and identifying within it the causes of the current crisis. It also [...]
The Politics of Ingratitude
Here is the great secret of my generation: What our parents gave us as a gift we have received as an entitlement. No one is grateful for an entitlement. Indeed, everyone is resentful that it is not larger. Worse, we are resentful of everybody else’s entitlements because they compete with our own.