A new book from … Fulton Sheen!
Sheen always had the gift for being able to connect with his audience, and here is no exception, even with a topic as dry as economics.
La poesia dei limiti
Limiti sono regole. Il paradosso è che la libertà esiste solo all’interno delle regole. Se infrangiamo le regole, non otteniamo la libertà.
Do You Know Where Your Money Is?
Where is the profit if you make a lot of money on the stock market but lose your soul?
The Poetry of Limits
Limits are rules. The paradox is that freedom exists only within the rules. If we break the rules, we don’t get freedom.
La “tregua unilaterale” con il mondo
Il mondo moderno è diventato irreale. È diventato irreale perché rifiuta la realtà ultima. Rifiuta Dio.
The “One-sided Truce” with the Modern World
The modern world has become unreal. It has become unreal because it rejects the ultimate reality. It rejects God.
The False Cult of Progress
You cannot have progress, you cannot have improvement, unless you first identify where you are coming from and where you are going.
The Gospel of Hospitality
The Houston Catholic Worker house also does things right, but in a place where everything has gone wrong.
Christmas and Contraception
An immoral economic system paved the way to the widespread of acceptance of contraception.
G.K. Chesterton's Distributism
Chesterton points out that inside the word thrift is the word thrive. We can only thrive within our means.
The Triumphs and Failures of Feminism
Though abortion is a triumph for feminism, it is not a triumph for women.
Immigration
The immigration problem has gotten to the point where it can no longer be conveniently ignored. Yet the solutions offered are laughable and appalling.
The Monster
We have created a monster. We have fed the monster. And now the monster is eating our villages.
The Trouble with Catholic Social Teaching
The term Catholic Social Teaching produces two opposite and unpleasant effects. It makes some people bare their teeth and others run and hide.
The Basis of Civilization
Chesterton says that every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. The obvious things are the ordinary things, and we have forgotten them.
Food and Fellowship
Eating becomes a moral act when we make choices about how we produce, sell, and buy our food, taking into account how others are affected by our decisions.
Do You Know Where Your Money is and What it is Doing?
We don’t know who is being hired and who is being fired with our money. And we have no control over the most obscene things we finance.
Dorothy Day and Distributism
Dorothy did not only write about Distributism, she did Distributism. She helped people become self-sufficient.
Tales of the Long Bow
The League of the Long Bow is protecting the land, finding new ways to do old things, so that the old things can still be done.
The Outline of Sanity
Sanity is about wholeness, completeness. Insanity is about narrowness and brokenness.