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Fr. Henry Hoffmann
Meditation on Language
Read ☛: Meditation on LanguageAs conversation of all kinds unravels in our world today, and words become unmoored from meaning, it is right and just, perhaps even our duty and ultimately our salvation, to reflect upon words and the Word.
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Maria Brandell
Why are We Ignoring the Church’s Teaching on Usury?
Read ☛: Why are We Ignoring the Church’s Teaching on Usury?Of course, I never considered how odd (or recent) of a phenomenon the investment system was (money can just… make more money from itself? Reproduce, like plants?), and I certainly never considered how widespread usury might impact our economy and social structures on a macroscale.
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Peter Maurin
Out of the Temple
Read ☛: Out of the TempleChrist drove the money changers out of the Temple. But today nobody dares to drive the money lenders out of the Temple.
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Fr. Henry Hoffmann
Those on Welfare Do Not Live Like Kings
Read ☛: Those on Welfare Do Not Live Like KingsThe second paragraph of Blaise’s essay provoked my ire to a sufficient degree that I have decided to fire a shot across the bow. That being said, however, the rest of the article sufficiently mollified me so that I now offer more of a continuation – rather than a rebuttal – of his line of…
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Sam Francomb
A Semi-Brief History of the Cincinnatian Industrial Revolution
Read ☛: A Semi-Brief History of the Cincinnatian Industrial RevolutionIn and among the Catholic young adult community in Cincinnati, there exists a prevalent attitude of negativity toward the Industrial Revolution. “Those pesky 1800s!” many will say, “All they did was disrupt the normal functioning of the world! If only we could return to a pre-industrial society, where everything was simpler.” This opinion, while valid…
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Blaise Ghering
How Can We Objectively Tell If We’ve Made Any Progress?
Read ☛: How Can We Objectively Tell If We’ve Made Any Progress?GDP concerns itself with only goods and services, having no awareness for wellbeing. And, for that matter, it’s a dubious measure of goods and services too… We need a new metric.