LINK: Catholicism and Economics

A healthy society is no more troubled about its economic organisation than a healthy man is troubled about his digestion.

This ideal of Holy Poverty and of the blessedness of the non-economic life is the negative side of the Gospel teaching. The same view of life finds its positive expression in the precept of Charity, which is the true inspiration of the Christian life in economics as well as in other matters. All that a man has, whether of external goods or of personal powers and opportunities, is given him not for his own enjoyment, but for the service of God and man.

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"...money is a commodity to be bought or not to be bought, a luxury in which we may either indulge or stint ourselves, like any other. And there are many luxuries that we may legitimately prefer to it, such as a grateful conscience, a country life, or the woman of our inclination." ~Robert Louis Stevenson View all posts by Donald

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Peter Klopp says:

December 22, 2017 at 2:16 pm

With this perception of charity universally accepted the world would be a better place.

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The Wife says:

December 23, 2017 at 4:22 pm

“Though the natural and the supernatural are two distinct orders, to which in a sense the secular and the religious lives correspond, yet both are directed to the same ultimate end.”

Interesting analogy.

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