Low Wages and Easy Speeches
Wages don't matter - unless you happen to be a low-wage worker who also needs to live and perhaps wants to live right now.
Anti-Union Hypocrisy and the Janus Case
The same radical individualism that wants unions to be nothing but ineffectual voluntary organizations likewise sees marriage and the family as mere voluntary associations.
Francis or Fundamentalism: A False Dichotomy
La Civiltà Cattolica appears to lump together as integralists all varieties of American Catholics who, in one way or another, do not support the program of Pope Francis.
Justice & Charity: A Review
Justice & Charity could serve as a very helpful introduction for contemporary Catholics utterly unaware of the Church’s rich social doctrine.
The Catholic Church After Obergefell
Let us use the occasion of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision not to engage in railing and political strategizing, but to take stock of our spiritual and intellectual health.
The Duty of Delight
Dorothy Day lived in a time of great change in the Church and in society. She chose a way of life that most would find difficult, even impossible.
The Lost Condemnations of Capitalism
The Lost Condemnations of Communism of Vatican II make clear that communism is opposed to Catholic faith and morals, but so is capitalism.
Two Biblical Passages On Economic Life
There are two passages from Sacred Scripture which, taken together, illustrate well the place which economic activity should occupy in human life.
The Market As the Capitalist Demiurge
The beneficial efficiency that market competition can sometimes produce is in no way a substitute for intelligent concern for the common good.
Some Christmas Thoughts On Ebenezer Scrooge
So much has the mentality we see in Scrooge triumphed in the modern world that responsible adults have celebrated him as an honorable and worthy citizen.
Catholics and Libertarian Economics: A Reply to Samuel Gregg
Gregg frames the conflict between Pope Francis and libertarian thought, whereas it is really a conflict between Catholic teaching and libertarian thought.
Capitalism and Economism
The truth of what John Paul wrote about economism hardly allows us to defend a system that fosters the desire for material goods as an end in itself.
New Names For Old Things
It is much harder to make distinctions between beneficial and harmful innovations, and even more so between new things and new names for old things.
Internet Businesses: Solution or Stopgap?
Internet commerce means we will buy almost nothing from local stores and instead sit at our computers, ordering from online venders often located far away.
Homage to Christ the King
Economic activity is part of that hierarchy of means and ends leading up to God, part of the homage to Christ the King which mankind is bound to offer.
Social Justice According to Pius XI
The term “social justice” is little understood by most of those who use it—but the term does have a precise meaning as carefully explained by Pius XI.
Socialism, Capitalism, and Materialism
Catholics assume that the reason for Pius' declaration against socialism was the economic or perhaps the political practices of socialists.
Il perché del profitto
Il profitto deriva da un lato, il lavoro di organizzazione e direzione del titolare di un’impresa, dall’altro il rischio a cui si sottopone.
Government: Good or Bad? Big or Little?
Is government a necessary evil? A necessary good? Is that government best which governs least?
Thinking with the Church
Are we turning to the teachings of the Church only to evaluate how these deviate from our favorite secular theories and authors?