If states were countries…
July 16, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 7 Comments
Look at the economic strength of the US compared to the rest of the world. There has to be a way to turn the problems around. Source: Strange Maps. Click to enlarge.
Debt, Credit and the Virtuous Life
May 14, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 4 Comments
By Fr. Gregory Jenson Our economic life is concerned with more than just the objective exchange of goods and services. Far from being morally neutral, it is an expression of how we understand our dependence on God and neighbor and is the means by which we fulfill, or not, our obligations toward them. Both for [...]
On the ‘edge of the abyss’
May 6, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 31 Comments
By John Couretas on the Acton blog: From the Greek daily Kathimerini: Witnesses said that protestors marching past the building ignored the bank employees’ cries for help and that a handful even shouted anti-capitalist slogans. [ ... ] It took a statement from President Karolos Papoulias to best sum up Greece’s dire situation and the [...]
Prophet Jim Wallis and the Ecclesia of Economic Ignorance
April 14, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 33 Comments
Wallis poses as a centrist but his economic prescriptions are hard-left with lots of self-congratulatory “prophetic” moralizing thrown in. +++++++++++++++++++ By John Couretas. Acton Institute This class of the very poor – those who are just on the borders of pauperism or fairly over the borders – is rapidly growing. Wealth is increasing very fast; [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury Opens Trinity Wall Street Economics Conference
February 16, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 3 Comments
BREAKING NEWS! John Couretas has an excellent analysis over at the Acton Blog with video. Back to our report… I don’t want to turn this into beat up on the Anglicans day but, as long as we are discussing the presumptuousness of religious professionals, here’s another. Amid the backdrop of an ongoing economic recession, Archbishop [...]
Review: How the Byzantines Saved Europe
August 17, 2009 by John Couretas · 17 Comments
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon, Robin Cormack. Oxford University Press (2008) Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin. Princeton University Press (2008) Ask the average college student to identify the 1,100 year old empire that was, at various points in its history, the political, [...]
WCC’s ‘Homespun’ Economic Fallacy
November 19, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
The World Council of Churches, which claims to speak for most Orthodox Churches around the globe, has formulated a number of proposals to reform the global financial system because of its inherent “injustice.” General Secretary Samuel Kobia sees the need for new transnational financial watchdog organizations that will “qualitatively regulate the growth in massive movements [...]
Thomas Sowell before the election
November 8, 2008 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Metropolitan Kirill on Economic Globalization
October 27, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, the President of the Department of Foreign Religious Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, has written a prologue or introduction to “The Ethics of the Common Good in Catholic Social Doctrine” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008) by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s Secretary of State. The article by Metropolitan Kirill was [...]
Message of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches
October 13, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Leaders of the world’s Orthodox churches released a joint statement that touched on far ranging issues of interest to the Church, including the global economic crisis, the environment and the prospects for further pan-Orthodox consultations and a Holy and Great Council. The primates were gathered for the Oct. 10-12 Synaxis of the Heads of the [...]
Solovyov on Economic Morality
March 5, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Towards the end of his life, the 19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov published his “On the Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy” (1897). In this book, wrote historian Paul Valliere, Solovyov abandonded his vision of a “worldwide theocratic order” in favor of the more concrete demands of building a just society. [...]
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