National Catholic Register

Caritas in Veritate’s vision of human development is based on a radical opening to God, a proposal as audacious as the secular utopias of recent centuries in its call for the transformation of every aspect of life through self-giving love.

A financial system that purposely channels greed into speculation, rather than into productive investment, is inherently irrational and unstable.

The best postmodern thinkers used irony to expose the flaws of Western rationalism. But when their progeny turned on reason itself, their capacity to perceive irony disappeared.

What accounts for the disconnect between conservative American Catholics and papal pronouncements about war?

Economic freedom, like other God-given freedoms — political, scientific, artistic, sexual — is good, but only when ordered to the truth of the human person.

When the Internet bubble burst, Tom Cunningham's start-up companies were hit hard, but they survived by re-focusing on business fundamentals. Enron wasn't so fortunate.

Enron, at one time the nation's seventh-largest company by revenue, is bankrupt today because of speculation. Enron executives used entirely legal but unsound accounting tricks and financing schemes to push up its stock price and cash in on the biggest bull market in history. A New York Times article summed it up: Enron “was not much of a company, but its executives made sure it was one hell of a stock.”