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.
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.
Economic Law and Catholic Social Doctrine
Catholic Social Teaching, began in an authoritative way with Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
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.