Brookings Institution<\/a> to tout his new book, Wallis claimed that the \u201cfaith community\u201d was perceiving economic issues more and more as moral questions. So far, so good. But this moral searching in his view calls for a more activist government to strike better \u201cbalance\u201d on economic questions. Back to Caesar, again.<\/p>\nAt Brookings, Wallis also made it clear that he wasn\u2019t really all that wedded to the idea of morality rooted in faith \u2013 a strange sentiment for a Christian activist or a modern day Prophet. \u201cReligion has no monopoly on morality,\u201d he insisted. \u201cWe make that clear. Religion has no monopoly on morality. We need more than a religious movement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, at least Wallis is honest about that. But, and especially when grappling with economic issues, we need more than pious denunciations and cheap moralizing. We need some real understanding of economics.<\/p>\n
John Couretas is director of communications for the Acton Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u2013 those who are just on the borders of pauperism or fairly over the borders \u2013 is rapidly growing. Wealth is increasing very fast; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[6,1317,1318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6376,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}