Next Steps for the U.S. Church After the Vatican Financial Scandal
by Brendan WilsonThe U.S. Church should demand nothing less than comprehensive financial reform of the Vatican.
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From Occupy to Wall Street
by Philip PilkingtonOn June 9, 2011, Kalle Lasn, an Estonian-Canadian activist and filmmaker, registered the web address OccupyWallStreet.org. Lasn is the co-founder of Adbusters magazine, a far-left anarchist publication established in 1989. Earlier in 2011, the magazine had run an article titled “A . . . . Continue Reading »
Sin Aboundeth
by Dan HitchensAt the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »
How Much Dreiser Does a Man Need?
by Shalom CarmyTheodore Dreiser is ranked among our great authors; he was a syllabus mainstay for as polished a master as Saul Bellow. Yet he is neither among the great English-language prose stylists nor a writer of nuanced or profound moral vision. His idea of human life was crudely mechanical and deterministic. . . . . Continue Reading »
Morgan Stanley Announces New “Catholic” Investment Program
by Mark MovsesianConverting mainstream liberal values into Catholic commitments. Continue Reading »
Faith & Finance
by Gary A. AndersonSwings in the business cycle are as psychological as they are economic. The Economist put the matter in sharp relief: “Much in modern economics is taken on trust. Even the most basic goods depend on complex links between suppliers strewn across the globe. The glue that binds the whole system . . . . Continue Reading »
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