[markomalley]

Jeffrey Tucker is the editorial vice president of the Mises Institute, editor of Mises.org, author of Sing Like a Catholic (2009) and Bourbon for Breakfast (2010), adjunct scholar of the Mackinac Institute, faculty member of Acton University, managing editor of Sacred Music magazine, and a daily contributor to the New Liturgical Movement blog.

[Pecos]

Thank you for posting. The article is interesting in that it (nearly) simultaneously follows two lines of thought. Very difficult to achieve, but the author does it well. It points out the fallacy of injecting 20th/21st century “social justice” ideas into the gospel, and the message that Christ’s justice is available to all.

[truthfreedom]

Quite a good article.

[ALPAPilot]

I would also add that not enough distinction is made between how individual catholics make decision within an economic system catholics wish to establish.

For example if I describe myself as a “Capitalist”; it could have two disparate meanings.

1. It could mean that I make all my personal decisions entirely based on the greatest personal economic gain for myself. This can clearly be contradictory to church teachings.

2. It could also mean that I advocate for a free market system where my property rights are protected and I am free to make economic decisions based on any factors I choose. This in general is clearly consistent with church teaching, especially since history has shown that free markets produce the most wealth for the most people with the least poverty.

The marxist-liberal-democrats often exploit this ambiguity to claim that because of “social justice” capitalism is immoral.

[November 2010]

A Catholic sensibility at the micro-level works wonderfully. In other words, a business owner caring about his employees and thier families and arranging pay, work and benefits accordingly. At the macro level, with government transfer payments, government “charity” is not charity, it is redistribution with jail as the consequence if you want to keep your own money rather than have the politicians distribute it to their favored groups and friends.

[sitetest]

Good, thought-provoking article.

But you should have made it a caucus thread.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Ping to read later.

[MoHamhead]

For years I've puzzled over the question of why Catholics have such trouble coming to terms with economics. This problem applies only to modern Catholics, for it was Catholics in 15th- and 16th-century Spain who systematized the discipline to begin with.

Actually, 15th-16th century Spain went down the drain economically because they couldn't figure out that adding a lot of money (gold from the New World) without adding corresponding wealth was a bad idea. So, it's really a case of "same as it ever was".

[Zionist Conspirator]

I’d like to hear your thoughts on this issue.

[ex-snook]

"Why Catholics Don't Understand Economics"

Because Jesus was a Socialist because He was concerned about the poor?

[Salvation]

 

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[Heart-Rest]

Thanks for posting this.    It's a great article.

Perhaps the non-scarcity of hot air and vacuous thinking patterns lead some politicians and Church leaders to miss these important distinctions.