Over the last month, as talk has returned to budgets and sequesters, deficits and debt, I found myself extremely frustrated every time I began to blog on economic justice – haven’t I already written extensively on the Ryan...
Read MoreAs promised, I have posted Part 2 over at Political Theology’s There’s Power in the Blog. The Circumstance of Unmet Need: Part II on Aquinas and the Moral Evaluation of a Budget Offering examples of how...
Read MoreTo many of our readers, I realize I may appear to be obsessed with subsidiarity and food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/SNAP). In the last year, I have written about a dozen blogs focused on poverty, with many...
Read MoreWhat is underlying the obsession with the national debt as THE economic problem? Over at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Charles Clark , Professor of Economics at St. John’s University examines the false...
Read MoreAs I have stated on this website and elsewhere, Catholic social teaching advocates unequivocally the needs of the poor and vulnerable take priority over the wants of the rich. I have also argued that the budget is not only a...
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