Catholic Social Doctrine and the Market Economy: Free Persons and Free Markets
by Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. The free market must operate within certain moral, institutional, and legal norms, or else it becomes something other than a free market. The free market is not an...
View ArticleFixing the Moral Deficit, Biblical Principles for Debt Reduction
by Chuck Colson – Thirty-five years ago, my friend Ron Sider published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, a very influential book at the time. While I haven’t always agreed with Ron, in fact, we’re...
View ArticleStand Up for Religious Freedom – March 23, 2012
The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom is being held Friday, March 23 at noon, local time, outside federal buildings, Congressional offices and historic sites across the country. The theme for the...
View ArticlePity the Poor Working Chump
by Anthony W. Hager – Leftists promote entitlement programs as necessary to meeting essential human needs, and there’s an element of truth in their position, for there are essential human needs....
View ArticleFree Enterprise and Fiscal Sanity Aren’t Social Darwinism
by Jay W. Richards – On Tuesday, President Obama denounced Representative Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, which would modestly reduce the rate of growth in the federal budget. Ryan’s plan is a “radical...
View ArticleCatholic Bishops Take on Obama
by Vincent Phillip Munoz – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken a bold stand for religious freedom. In a recent statement, titled “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty,” the bishops...
View ArticleThe Economic Paradox No One Wants to Talk About
by Arnold Ahlert – There is an economic paradox that few people understand, much less wish to acknowledge, because to do so would reveal the level of societal deterioration that has caused it. In...
View ArticleWhat the Bible Teaches About Capitalism
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero – Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his...
View ArticleKeynesianism and the Collectivist Dream
by William Sullivan – It’s campaign season, and as usual, Democrats are employing their class struggle rhetoric to position a redistributive government agenda as the only way Americans can be saved...
View ArticleProgressing toward Moral Darkness
by Gary Horne – A fashionable name for the left these days is “progressive.” The use of this word hints that the progressive has already passed the rest of us and is moving on to some place where the...
View ArticleAmerica: The Home of the…Compliant?
by Daren Jonescu – If you want a quick measure of the state of American society, you might consider the federal government’s use of unmanned aerial drones to monitor U.S. citizens, and in particular...
View ArticleThe End of America? The HHS Mandate’s Threat to Freedom
The Obama’s Administration’s mandate requiring the Catholic Church to conform to government dictates on contraception and abortifacent drugs is more than a war on the Catholic Church argue Jennifer...
View ArticleEarning Happiness — The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise
The words “happiness” and “free enterprise” don’t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly...
View ArticleIndependence Day Reflection: Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness
by F. K. Bartels – Man’s natural desire for happiness is of “divine origin: God has placed it in the human heart in order to draw man to the One who alone can fulfill it” (CCC 1718). … In June of 1776...
View ArticleArchbishop Chaput: Christians Must Render Themselves Unto God
by Archbishop Charles Chaput – Paul Claudel, the French poet and diplomat of the last century, once described the Christian as “a man who knows what he is doing and where he is going in a world [that]...
View ArticleCardinal Dolan on Fighting the Good Fight for Religious Freedom
by Cardinal Timothy Dolan – Over the course of the coming year, the effort to protect religious liberty and the freedom of conscience will continue. In the end, this is not about bishops, it is not...
View ArticleHobby Lobby’s Christian Owners Fight $1.3 Million-Per-Day HHS Mandate Fine
by Kathleen Gilbert – The Obama administration is set to levy as much as a $1.3 million per day fine against a Christian retail business based on their religious objection to abortifacient drugs,...
View ArticleHope in God, Do Not Despair
by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP – There are those who despair and have no hope when things do not go their way in the political order. This cannot be a Christian attitude. “The world itself now bears witness...
View ArticleReligious Freedom is Necessary for Other Freedoms to Flourish
by Thomas Farr – Is religious freedom necessary for other freedoms to flourish? This is indeed a big question. It implicates an array of philosophical issues and scholarly disciplines, but it also has...
View ArticleThanksgiving with Winston Churchill
by Jeffrey Folks – In an appearance at Royal Albert Hall on November 23, 1944, Winston Churchill spoke in honor of the American holiday of Thanksgiving. On that day, just as Hitler was about to unleash...
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