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Every week at Mass, Catholics recite the Creed.  We proclaim our faith in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and the establishment of Christ’s Church.  During Lent, we are called to meditate more intensely on the sections of the Passion, Death, and coming Resurrection of our Lord: “[Jesus Christ] suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/04/10/a-mediation-on-good-friday/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/12/17/madoff-with-millions-meets-blagojevich-way-but-loose/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/12/17/madoff-with-millions-meets-blagojevich-way-but-loose/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:23:18 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=584
Acts committed by individuals motivated by greed or envy are wrong. But is business or political corruption always harmful to the common good? Can it ever be helpful? Not everything that is legal is good; abortion, for example. Similarly, not everything that is illegal is necessarily bad, like some forms of corruption. The corruption that Bernard Madoff apparently practiced was a version [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/12/17/madoff-with-millions-meets-blagojevich-way-but-loose/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/09/25/corruption/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/09/25/corruption/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:11:40 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=133
The Judas (St. Matthias) lesson explores Biblical passages on corruption and betrayal, Catholic perspectives on social sin and the requirement to oppose it, and the economics of principal-agent problems, rent seeking, and New Institutional Economic theory. Students apply what they learned in the lesson by writing a script for an oral report on how to [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/09/25/corruption/feed/ 0