For those with the gift of plenty, there are, of course, situations where alms are not only good but morally imperative. Alms, however, cannot be the rule. Rather, it is important that every country tries to produce enough food or other goods to trade for food. We do no one a favor if we make them dependent on us for their survival.
Dr. Pietra Rivoli's new work, detailing the life cycle of a T-shirt, approaches the politics of world trade on a personal, and not an ideological, level.
Deuteronomy 8:3 “He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.” Deuteronomy 8:3
In this issue of Religion & Liberty, our thoughts turn to situations where that growth and dynamism is most needed: the desperate situations of poverty and hunger that still persist.
The drifting course of socialism over the decades following the publication of Rerum Novarum confirmed the predictions that were made by Pope Leo XIII.
In her book The Redemption of Love: Rescuing Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World, Carrie Miles works to reunite modern day perceptions of marriage with God's vision of marriage as it was originally intended.