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Just in time for Christmas, Acton Media's new documentary The Birth of Freedom is 
In his speech at the Acton Institute annual dinner, Rev. Robert A. Sirico highlighted "the synthesis of faith and freedom, liberty and virtue, free markets and moral responsibility" and the connection between prosperity and a deep practical and personal concern for the poor and marginalized. 
Financial executive David Milroy, a board member of the Acton Institute, looks at the financial market meltdown and the ethical problems behind it. "The collapse in the real estate market triggered this crisis, but it was the behavior of market participants that laid the groundwork," he writes. Samuel Gregg examines the moral failures that led to the financial crisis and asks why more free-marketers aren't also asking questions about the human factor. "One explanation for this silence could be that some market-advocates have embraced, consciously or otherwise, the soft relativism so prevalent in Western societies but which renders coherent moral analysis impossible," he writes.
An invitation to participate in a political discussion by a "non-partisan" organization leads Rev. Sirico to reflect on why the organization could not see its own political biases. The Religious Left, he argues, suffers from a "self-inflicted blindness as to the full range of opinion that is possible within the framework of religious ethics." A sound understanding of economics, and a knowledge of how best to help the poor, he adds, requires more than mouthing "slogans of justice and the common good." 
