http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com Christianity and Economics Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:19:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/28/seamus-mulholland-on-freedom-part-2/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/28/seamus-mulholland-on-freedom-part-2/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:35:27 +0000 Seamus Mulholland http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1215
The freedom of the individual is a freedom guaranteed by their individuality. It is not a freedom guaranteed by any political or socio-economic system; rather, the ‘system’ serves the freedom of the individual insofar as the system creates the environment whereby the individual person can come to the fullness of their humanity.  Any system of [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/28/seamus-mulholland-on-freedom-part-2/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/10/seamus-mulholland-ofm-on-freedom-and-the-individual/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/10/seamus-mulholland-ofm-on-freedom-and-the-individual/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:40:29 +0000 Seamus Mulholland http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1199
There is so much talk today both on this side of the Atlantic and on the other side of the Atlantic and any other sea shore of ‘freedom’.  Freedom of the market, freedom of society, freedom of the individual. This, coupled with, ‘liberty and justice for all’ makes an attractive package for us to give [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/10/seamus-mulholland-ofm-on-freedom-and-the-individual/feed/ 3 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/03/30/st-homobonus-patron-of-business-people/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/03/30/st-homobonus-patron-of-business-people/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:08:37 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=991
Thanks to my Catholic economist friend John Larrivee (see Dr. Larrivee’s guest post on fair trade here) for teaching me about St. Homobonus. St. Homobonus is the patron saint of business people. He was a wealthy textile merchant in Cremona, Italy during the late twelfth century, sometimes depicted with a bag of money in his hand. He [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/03/30/st-homobonus-patron-of-business-people/feed/ 2 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/03/16/steele-on-the-dignity-of-freedom/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/03/16/steele-on-the-dignity-of-freedom/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:26:01 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=961
There is a challenging editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal by Shelby Steele. In it he explores why, for minorities, liberalism frequently has had more appeal than conservatism. In essence, even with a clear record of one policy failure after another, (war on poverty, Great Society, aid to families with dependent children, etc.) liberalism’s appeal is [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/03/16/steele-on-the-dignity-of-freedom/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/02/13/slavery-and-freedom/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/02/13/slavery-and-freedom/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:15:27 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=830
Just returned from a brilliant lecture at the University of Arizona on slavery and freedom. The lecture was given by a visiting scholar named Professor Jacob Levy of McGill University. It was very illuminating. Though I was not able to talk afterward with Prof. Levy, I would like to formally thank him here. The lecture traced the origins of [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/02/13/slavery-and-freedom/feed/ 2 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/09/25/entrepreneurship/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/09/25/entrepreneurship/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:30:23 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=171
The St. Peter lesson explores the creation account in Genesis, the freedom of initiative as described in Catholic documents, and the economics of entrepreneurship. Students are asked to apply the principles they learned about in this lesson by writing their own business plan. ]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/09/25/entrepreneurship/feed/ 0