What does a bishop think sitting next to the pope? "My mother’s scolding 'sit up straight!'"
- Jan 24, 2020
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Top Vatican official echoes Müller, says dialogue key to political disagreement
- May 30, 2019
Facing a steep uphill battle with an increasingly populist Europe, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Wednesday backed comments from a fellow prelate insisting that the Holy See engage politicians with opposed politics, saying the approach must be one of dialogue.
Catholic teaching on economics about the human person, academic says
- Mar 19, 2019
Dr. Mary Hirschfeld is Associate Professor of Economics and Theology in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She spoke to Crux about the current debate on socialism and capitalism, and how Catholic social teaching takes a different approach.
‘Moral economy’ necessary for true economic flourishing, panel says
- Sep 7, 2018
Cardinal Joseph Tobin and economist Jeff Sachs participated in a Fordham University discussion on Pope Francis’s vision for a moral economy.
Vatican sees risk of ‘social collapse’ in global economic order
- May 17, 2018
The Vatican issues economic guuidlines for today’s “profoundly amoral culture.”
Book proposes a Catholic politics of mercy as an alternative way of life
- Nov 21, 2017
In his new book, titled Send Lazarus: Capitalism, Catholicism, and the Politics of Mercy, Peter Joseph Fritz reflects on Catholicism and neoliberal capitalism, providing a theological critique of our world’s dominant economic system. The book is currently under consideration for publication in 2019 by Fordham University Press.
Between the markets and mercy: New book looks at the Church and neoliberalism
- Nov 16, 2017
In his analysis of neoliberalism, Pope Francis diagnoses our cultural situation as one in which many people devote themselves to the idol of money, choosing mammon over God. He identifies how “the faceless economy” distorts our values, what we give time and energy to, and what we are able to see or not.
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