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Don't blame markets, but sin for environmental problems
Kishore Jayabalan, director of Istituto Acton, issued this statement regarding Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si':Kishore Jayabalan: Pope Francis, The Economy And Missing The Mark
Kishore Jayabalan, Director of Istituto Acton in Rome, evaluates a new book on Pope Francis and the economy. The book, Papa Francesco: Questa Economia Uccide [ Pope Francis: This Economy Kills], is written by two Italian journalists known for skirting the ethical standards for Vatican journalists. For that alone, Jayabalan does not hold their work in high esteem.Letter from Rome: Christian stewardship, UN sustainability
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: What is liberal morality?
Three recent events have made me reflect on a certain theme that should be of interest to religious-minded advocates of the free society. Or at least it should be of interest if we wish to overcome the perceptions of religious believers as simple-minded fanatics and liberals as amoral libertines. This theme can be posed as a question: what is liberal morality?‘Liberal means responsible’. Interview with Kishore Jayabalan on Alain De Benoist, Gender and Capitalism
Alain de Benoist, philosopher and founder of Nouvelle Droite, spoke about the source of gender ideology in a conversation with IntelligoNews director, Fabio Torriero, associating it with liberal capitalism. I asked the director of the Acton Institute's office in Rome, Kishore Jayabalan, to offer his rebuttal. This sparked conversation about the values of a commercial society and Jayabalan’s caveat: "to attack human liberty because of human folly is not the best way forward."Letter from Rome: JPII and the Dignity of Work
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, April 2 marks the 10 th anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul II. It’s hard to believe a decade has passed since we gathered to pray outside his window in St. Peter’s Square and later came together with millions from around the world for the funeral mass. The subsequent beatification and canonization of John Paul II only confirmed what the JPII generation already knew was true and we remain magnetically attracted by his personal example of holiness, charisma, and joyful suffering.Letter from Rome: ISIS’s Political Theology Escapes the Secular Mind
Dear friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: Pope Francis’s Free-Speech Problem and Ours
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: What will Pope Francis say about the environment?
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, As the leader of the world’s largest religion, the pope’s moral authority is second to none, which is not to say that everyone, even in the Catholic Church, agrees with what he says. It is not controversial or disrespectful to admit this fact or to say that the pope is often more admired than imitated or followed. I would further venture that this is especially the case when the pope addresses issues not concerning matters of faith and morals, i.e. where his teaching is not considered infallible by the Church.Letter from Rome: Bureaucracy makes Europe “elderly and haggard”
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: Religion and Liberty at the Family Synod
Dear friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: Economic Liberty’s Episcopal Discontents
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton, With the recent nomination of Bishop Blase Cupich as the next Archbishop of Chicago, we are likely entering the latest round of polemics over the purported incompatibility of Catholicism and capitalism, Windy-City style. In honor of Sean Connery, we’ll be sure not to bring a knife to this gun fight.