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Editor's note
This issue of R&L is a good example of the encounter between faith and reason.Interest and responsibility
Since at least the Middle Ages, the payment and receipt of interest has existed under a moral cloud, due mainly to a misunderstanding concerning what interest is and why it exists.Europe without roots
Our values, rights, and duties of equality, tolerance, respect, solidarity, and compassion are born from God's sacrifice.Doubled-edged sword: The power of the Word - Genesis 17:3
Was the goal of the Abrahamic covenant merely to produce a civilized culture?Conjugal economics
In her book The Redemption of Love: Rescuing Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World, Carrie Miles works to reunite modern day perceptions of marriage with God's vision of marriage as it was originally intended.Dignity, democracy, and the free market
The drifting course of socialism over the decades following the publication of Rerum Novarum confirmed the predictions that were made by Pope Leo XIII.Europe is losing its soul
Europe is losing the characteristics given to it by Christianity, both Western and Eastern.Editor's note
This issue of R&L gets us inside so to speak, the European soul.Fairness in the market
What is conservation and what is waste can only be measured by the price system in a market setting.Defending the weak and the idol of equality
Protecting the weak is realistic in a way that trying to create absolute equality is not.Doubled-edged sword: The power of the Word
There are other practices in Deuteronomy that are described as abominable, practices with a more readily identifiable detestable nature such as sorcery, idolatry, and offering children in pagan rites. It is among such company that the law places one who cheats another out of a few cents in business.The dividends of social capital
If a culture places importance on virtues that help create prosperity – honesty, fairness, personal responsibility, the importance of hard work, and respect for law – it creates an atmosphere of trust, which engenders spontaneous and voluntary collaboration and creates the conditions where business and entrepreneurship can flourish