Post Tagged with: "St. Thomas Aquinas"
Is Usury Still a Sin?
One can certainly find a nearly universal practical neglect of the question of usury, but one looks in vain to find that the Church ever retracted, abrogated, or substantially altered her teaching on usury.
Does Property Have a Purpose?
Under Distributism, there will be more owners of significant property than under capitalism. More people will derive at least part of their income from their own property, and thus will have a greater incentive to defend it and to band together with others to do so, whenever necessary.
On the Reading of Obscure Documents
The adventure that is seeking out obscure documents to find the answers to perennial questions is quintessentially Distributist. The Distributist should seek to uncover the monuments of our forefathers who—like good fathers—left a great inheritance to their children.
Corporation Christendom: The True School of Salamanca
If Aquinas was a capitalistic Pre-Liberal, von Mises certainly did not see it; in fact, he uses St. Thomas’s teachings as the embodiment of the very mentality and outlook, which he is rejecting.
Exposing the Dangerous Premises of Economic Liberals
If a crisis such as the terrorist attacks in New York were to occur and people were deprived of their homes, is it just to increase the cost of a hotel room by 185% simply because more people want rooms?
Economic Autarchy and Buying American
Is it more moral to prefer more locally-made goods to more remotely-made ones? I think that the great Catholic tradition of economic autarchy reveals an answer of “Unequivocally, yes.”
The Thomist Inheritance and the Household Economy of Father Vincent McNabb
The thought of Fr. Vincent McNabb, the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, and Distributism should be included in this series because they are, quite simply, the most startling Catholic examples, in Britain this century, of the possibilities of ordinary life being thought about and lived in an extraordinary way.
Individualism and the State, Part II
Leo XIII clearly argues that not only does man exist in society by nature, but that man exists in the state by nature; and further, that the state, “no less than society itself,” is a natural institution with God at its origin.
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.