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Rev. Sirico on Pope Francis and the Morality of Money

Earlier this week, Rev. Robert Sirico appeared on Fox Business’ Varney & Co with Stuart Varney and Judge Andrew Napolitano to discuss Pope ments on economics. Watch the video clip below: Watch the latest video at ...

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ResearchLinks – 08.24.12

Book Review: “Ferguson on Green, Pauper Capital” David R. Green. Pauper Capital. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Reviewed by Christopher Ferguson (Auburn University) The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, monly known as the New Poor Law, is arguably the most notorious piece of legislation in British history. Deeply controversial in its day, it has unsurprisingly generated a dense and diverse scholarly literature ever since, yet one in which the national capital has played a remarkably minor role. Indeed, David R....

Baptists vs. Obama’s HHS

Louisiana College, a Baptist school in Pineville, La., is the most recent institution to file a lawsuit over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. Kathryn Jean Lopez interviewed the the school’s president, Joe Aguillard, about the decision to sue the government: LOPEZ: The president contended last week that there is promise. So why would you sue? AGUILLARD: Any repeated claim that the government promised is recycled nonsense. The HHS mandate will force us to cover abortion pills in our health plans...

You Didn’t Kill That Business On Your Own

After relating how city regulations in Chattanooga, Tenn., helped kill a small business, economist Mark J. Perry offers a sympathetic sentiment for failed entrepreneurs: To paraphrase President Obama: Look, if you’ve been unsuccessful, you didn’t get there on your own. If you were unsuccessful at opening or operating a small business, some government official along the line probably contributed to your failure. There was an overzealous civil servant somewhere who might have stood in your way with unreasonable regulations that...

Conference: Free Markets, Solidarity, and Sustainability

The Markets, Culture, and Ethics Project’s Third International Colloquium on Christian Humanism in Economics and Business, “Free Markets with Solidarity and Sustainability: Facing the Challenge” conference ing up this October 22-23 at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. Academic conferences do not necessarily strive to be attractive or inviting (13 word titles and 13 letter words aren’t really all that “catchy”). But I would encourage anyone who is in the area or who is willing to make the...

Small-town Paul Ryan: Defender of Subsidiarity

As I leafed through this week’s Wall Street Journal Europe mentary, I finally felt a little redemption. Hats off to WSJ writers Peter Nicholas and Mark Peter whose brief, but poignant August 20 article “Ryan’s Catholic Roots Reach Deep” shed light on vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s value system. This was done by elucidating how Paul Ryan views the relationship of the individual with the state and how the local, small-town forces in America can produce great change for a...

The Corruptions of Power: Gossip of the Highest Sort

In his magnificent reflection on the nature of art, Real Presences, polymath George Steiner invites us to make a thought experiment: What if we lived in a city where all talk about art, mere talk about art, was prohibited? In other words, what would follow if we did away with artistic criticism qua criticism, an activity derivative by nature and one Steiner calls “high gossip”? In this posited city, what Steiner calls the Answerable City, the only permitted response to...

GQ, ArtPrize and ‘Flyover Country’

At the Mackinac Center blog, I look at a really shabby piece of reportage in GQ Magazine on ArtPrize, the annual public petition in Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids is also where the Acton Institute is based and it’s a terrific Midwestern city doing a lot of things right. But when East Coast writer Matthew Power visited GR he saw only “flyover country,” a “provincial” mindset, “G.R.-usalem” (lots of churches) and “ordinary” local inhabitants. You know where this is going....

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Gods Eternal Generosity

　　“I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you…” Daniel 2:23 (NIV) 　　On a trip to a place where some of my ancestors lived – Ireland – I participated in an international prayer retreat. The other people I met at the retreat...

Died: Jürgen Moltmann, Theologian of Hope

　　Jrgen Moltmann, a theologian who taught that Christian faith is founded in the hope of the resurrection of the crucified Christ and that the coming kingdom of God acts upon human history out of the eschatological future, died on June 3 in Tbingen, Germany. He was 98. 　　Moltmann is widely regarded as one of the most important theologians since World...

Kids These Days

　　The power of Hollywood is such that “The Big Lebowski” may be as well-known as Tom Hayden. Both were members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the national student activist association founded in the 1960s. In the film, the fictional Jeff Lebowski claimed to be the author of SDS’s “original Port Huron Statement, not the compromised second draft.”...

Southern Baptists Pledged to Launch an Online Database of Abusers. It’s Still Empty.

　　A volunteer Southern Baptist task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nations largest Protestant denomination will end its work next week without a single name published on a database of abusers. 　　The task forces report marks the second time a proposed database for abusive pastors has been derailed by denominational apathy, legal worries, and a desire to protect...

Learning from Preventable Tragedy

　　I was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Porto Alegre is in front of Lake Guaiba, which is formed by five rivers. In 1941, it suffered a tragic flood. Lake Guaiba rose almost sixteen feet above average, and a quarter of the population lost their homes. The trauma of such an event led the federal, state, and local governments to build...

Growth in Faith

　　A prominent association of American colleges and universities has created a new commission of religious schools whose aim will be to share with their nonreligious counterparts recent successes in the areas of access and affordability and the innovations that have led to growth in recent years. 　　The Commission on Faith-based Colleges and Universities, recently announced by the American Council on...

Can the Fed Fund the CFPB?

　　The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a source of controversy since its creation. Critics of the agency have long argued that its independent status is unconstitutional. In a recent decision, however, the Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the CFPB’s funding scheme, even though it circumvents the normal Congressional appropriation process by “allowing the Bureau to draw money...

We Keep Us Grammatical

　　“We keep us safe” is a progressive mantra. At Princeton, for example, this statement, plus an exclamation point, heads the tweet with the “Princeton Gaza Solidarity Encampment Community Guidelines” that Princeton Israel Apartheid Divest (@PtonDivestNow) posted on April 26, the day after the local encampment was set up. And on May 15, in announcing that the encampment was “open for...

How to Actually Love God with All Your Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength

　　How to Actually Love God with All Your Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength 　　By Kelly Balarie 　　“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” – Mark 12:30 NIV 　　All I heard was, “Blah…blah, blah.” 　　Although embarrassing to admit, I saw my husband’s mouth moving...

Feeling the Polyamorous Love?

　　Recently the New York Times ran an article about a social artifact that uniquely characterizes our times: the twenty-something polycule. A “polycule,” for the uninitiated, is a brutal portmanteau of “polyamorous” and “molecule,” or, it seems, the unit of an ever-growing erotic mass. It’s like a couple but fractally more grotesque. 　　What struck me wasn’t the article’s explanation of this...

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