God’s Pursuit of Fr. Walter Ciszek, and Each of Us
Fr. Walter Ciszek was conscious that every person we encounter, every suffering we endure, and every situation we find ourselves is an opportunity God uses to pursue us.
To Proclaim Christ to All Peoples and Nations
An Economics of Justice & Charity unpacks the social teachings and challenges Catholics to deepen their knowledge of the social doctrine of the Church.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The Christian Attitude on Social Problems
The bishops, while defending the rights of labor, warn labor against coercion and injustice in seeking a just solution of social problems.
Earth Ought Not to Look Like Hell
Chesterton understood exactly what they meant. They meant the “feeble-minded” on earth. They meant the “lower classes" or “humanity minus ourselves.”
Pesch and the Chesterbelloc
Heinrich Pesch and the Chesterbelloc: Complement or Conflict?
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.
Economic Participation
More ownership is rarely explored today because we have accepted the separation of ownership and work as the gold standard of economic progress.
Share and Share Alike
When ownership shares are awarded only to the money investors in capital, the employees who do the work have the value of their labor expropriated from them.