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.
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.
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.
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 Spirit of Capitalism
Capitalism is something that is frequently defined differently by different people. In this article, Thomas Storck explores the spirit of capitalism.
Plutonomy
The impact of for-profit control over our society has reenergized what some astute observers call plutonomy, which is what we are living under today.
Why Libertarians Are Wrong About Subsidiarity
The Papal definition of subsidiarity clearly shows that when in need, the higher orders can operate and do so in such a way so as to support the lower orders.
Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?
There is a saying of Chesterton's about economics that one finds frequently quoted with little attempt to understand what Chesterton meant or might have meant.
The Chief Question in Economics
The most fundamental question in economics, whether we are speaking of economic policy or of the subject called economics, is this.
A Distributist Looks at Capitalism and Socialism
Distributism offers another way, an economic system which will place fewer obstacles for fallen humanity to put first things first.
Catholic Social Teaching: Pius XI
The next topic that Pius XI takes up is the immense one stated in the title of the encyclical, the reconstruction of the social order.
Catholic Social Teaching: St. Pius X Through Pius XI
Pius' great achievement in the social field was Quadragesimo Anno, issued on the precise day, May 15, exactly forty years after Rerum Novarum.
A Resolved Tension
One is left with a very difficult decision when dealing with what Woods refers to as “the unresolved tension” between social teaching and economic law.
A Time to Rebuild on Firmer Foundations
How much should the government exercise its monopoly over interference with economic activity? Capitalists say not at all and Communists say all the time.