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.
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.
Towards Nazareth
And now, O Jesus of Nazareth, I wonder and wonder again whether in going away from these home-crafts we did not go from Our Father into a far country...
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.
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.
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?
Rerum Novarum: One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Later
One hundred twenty-five years ago, Pope Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum, and it has been annoying people ever since.
Justice in Economics Is Not Socialism
Dorothy, who had already tried socialism before she became a Catholic, decided not only to condemn Communism and socialism, but to create an alternative.
The Social Mission of the Catholic Church
If social modernism is as worthy of condemnation as is dogmatic modernism, then it surely is worthwhile learning what it is and seeking to avoid it.
The Authority of Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno
Economic questions are essentially moral questions, and therefore how we respond falls within the pale of the Church’s authority.
The Logic of Christendom
For the Greeks of Athens, as for the Catholics of Christendom, religion was not a private affair but also involved “regular public honoring of the divine.”
Three Strategies for Evasion
There are three main strategies used by conservative Catholics to justify their dissent from papal social teaching.
Labor Rights Reality
Why have labor unions so consistently fallen victim to corruption?
Who Owns Our Jobs?
We have all been trained up to the belief that jobs are something in the gift of great corporations or government bureaucracies.
Distributism: Economics as if People Mattered
"The Servile State" is the one of classical antiquity, in which vast masses of the people work as slaves for the small class of owners.
Economic Law and Catholic Social Doctrine Part II
The creation of an economics must be consistent with observed human behavior and with the Church's social doctrine.
Centesimus Annus Part II
Part II of Thomas Storck's review of Centesimus Annus.
From the Beginnings Through Leo XIII
Leo XIII restored the confidence of the Catholic world and began to reinvigorate the Church with an energy that lasted up into the 1960s.
Toward Social Thinking
"For the purpose of clear thinking on social matters, writes Fr. McNabb, "I venture to set down some thoughts on Socialism."