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Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics
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A common working assumption of many economists is that modern economics began with Adam Smith. Largely forgotten is the contribution of the Spanish scholastic thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thinking through issues such as the just price a...

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Cardinal Bertone and Metropolitan Kirill on Social Doctrine

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

Paola Fantini has expanded her blog post on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's new work on Catholic social doctrine into a book review for the forthcoming Religion & Liberty quarterly published by the Acton Institute. She has also translated the prologue to the book by Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill. These articles are the first to translate anything from Cardinal Bertone's “The Ethics of the Common Good in Catholic Social Doctrine” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008) into English. The Italian title is "L'etica del Bene Comune nella Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa."

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From the Journal of Markets & Morality

For a Catholic Vision of the Economy by Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

"Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be yours as well" (Matt. 6:33). Therefore: "Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day." These are the words of the Lord that should illuminate the Christian vision. These words, however, are not a maxim of piety. They are, rather, an ethical imperative for Christians and a law of human reality. When, instead, we look for mere economic good above all else, not only do we not obtain it, but often we can also lose the kingdom of God.

The reflections that I will propose in this article will attempt to bring out that fact. They will seek, that is to say, to demonstrate that the Gospel and the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, expressed so well by Saint Thomas Aquinas and by successive popes, contain those essential principles of human life and the achievement of its good, which no economy, if it wants to be a good economy, can forget.

In the Liberal Tradition

Sir Henry Vane (1613 - 1662)

Sir Henry Vane (1613 - 1662)“Magistracy is not to intrude itself into the office and proper concerns of Christ's inward government and rule in the conscience, but it is to content itself with the outward man.”
What the French took from the Americans was their theory of revolution, not their theory of government — their cutting, not their sewing.
~ Lord Acton

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