The Economic Crisis of 2008-2009
There is a disconnect for Catholics between the Word of the Gospel and the economic culture, which countenances every form of self-indulgence.
What’s Wrong with the Financial System?
Social Credit holds that the conventional financial system is not properly designed and cannot operate under its rules to fulfill its true purpose.
Do You Know Where Your Money Is?
Where is the profit if you make a lot of money on the stock market but lose your soul?
The Myth of Ownership
Not only do the laws of capitalism facilitate the separation of ownership from work, they also seem to separate ownership from the rights of ownership.
Conversations on Distributism
Our conversations must of necessity be elliptical and disjointed what with swing shifts, hours of work, duties on four acres, wife and six children.
An Incarnate Economy
In consumer capitalism, profit maximisation only works if desire is kept alive, and not stopped short when that desire is completed.
It is (Never) Enough
It's never enough—til we've had enough. We'll never be fed, until we're fed up. It's all unreal, until we get real.
House of Cards
What we really need is a solution that focuses on the common citizen and one that helps families become financially independent.
Eugenics: The War of Capitalism and Socialism Against Humanity
Most people today are under the impression that Eugenics died with Hitler, but this is not the case.
Money as Debt
Money as Debt present for us the hidden smoke and mirrors of our economic system.
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money
Money is not so much a medium of exchange as a record of the obligations we have to each other.
What is Money?
The desire for commodity money often represents a confusion about the nature of money, as if money itself were to have value.
Usury: Profit On A Loan
Usury is the sin of charging a profit or gain for the loan of something which is consumed in use such as money.
An Economic Creed
From "G.K.'s Weekly," "An Economic Creed" is one of Fr. McNabb's most beautiful manifestos.