No kind of regulation will be able to address the continued breakup of communities and the estrangement of their members; or the fact that advancement in the capitalist system is based on greed and self-regard.

An economic system is neither the source nor the end of Christian right action. If this doesn’t muddle a concept like “virtuous capitalism,” I don’t know what could.

A humane economy that supports human flourishing is an economy of communion, linked by the iron-clad bonds of reciprocity; not an economy of autonomy, linked only by the ephemeral grip of the invisible hand.

If our concern for the poor begins and ends with their material needs, then we have not understood poverty as Francis, and the Gospel, understand it.

Economics and its theories and models are meant to help us understand bits and pieces of the world around us, but they should not act as templates for how to order our lives.