catholic social teaching

July 29, 2013

Do Distributists Get Anything Right?

As David Deavel points out, free market economists and distributists “are often at each others’ throats.” Deavel is attempting to scrutinize distributism – what it is and what it isn’t – in a series at Intercollegiate Review. Continue Reading...

May 13, 2013

Gerson on the Common Good

Michael J. Gerson’s encomium to Jim Wallis’ book on the common good includes this curious paragraph: Nearly every Christian tradition of social ethics encompasses two sorts of justice. The first is procedural justice: giving people what they deserve under contracts and the law. Continue Reading...

May 02, 2013

No Executive Is An Island

As Michael Novak observes in The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, “A successful corporation is frequently based upon the principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, concrete decisions must be made on the level closest to the concrete reality. Continue Reading...

April 24, 2013

London’s Financial Leaders Challenged, Inspired at Acton Seminar

Last April 16, Acton’s Rome office co-sponsored a seminar in London on “The Morality of Work, Commerce and Finance: Lessons from Catholic Social Teaching” with St. Mary Moorfields, the only Roman Catholic parish in the Square Mile and located in the very heart of London’s investment banking district. Continue Reading...

April 23, 2013

Neither Worshipping Nor Demonizing Capitalism

Questions about poverty and social teaching are on the forefront of Pope Francis’ mind, as he’s made convincingly clear in his young papacy. This calls for cogent thinking on the topic, according to Fr. Continue Reading...

April 10, 2013

Samuel Gregg: What is Social Justice?

Update: Acton now has a PDF of this article available. You can download a color or black and white copy of it here: Gregg on Social Justice Gregg on Social Justice (black & white) There seems to be a great deal of confusion about “social justice” and what that term actually means. Continue Reading...

March 26, 2013

Audio: On NPR, Samuel Gregg Discusses Pope Francis and Economics

National Public Radio did a roundup of views on what to expect from Pope Francis on economic issues. Reporter Jim Zarroli interviewed Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg and several commentators on the Catholic left. Continue Reading...

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