In founding the Lumen Christi Institute in 1997, Thomas Levergood created a model for engaging the secular disciplines with the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Economics
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. bishops lament continued poverty, gender inequality in Labor Day statement
While recognizing that the U.S. economy has improved somewhat, a statement from the U.S. bishops addressed higher levels of poverty that have resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Global trade is here to stay. But have we reckoned with the moral costs of its conveniences?
Hyperglobalization means cheap goods delivered fast. It also has implications for labor conditions, economic inequality and the environment, all of which we can no longer ignore.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue
For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
The 2020 finances of the Roman Curia were better than expected — but not great
The consolidated financial statement of the Roman Curia for 2020 revealed better-than-expected results even though the overall situation is still quite difficult.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Pope Francis to business leaders: Don’t hide your money in tax havens. Invest in real people instead.
The pope said business leaders should shift their focus to production, creating jobs and “investing in the common good, not hiding money in tax havens.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic Church in Colombia calls for peace amid waves of anti-government protests
What began on April 28 as a public reaction to a tax reform proposal from President Iván Duque has expanded into a massive mobilization of broad discontent.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Down with credit cards. Up the minimum wage.
Credit cards make it easy to ignore the reality of how much things cost and how little money most people actually have. This is no accident.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Pope Francis is right: modern poverty in the United States is a scandal. But what are possible solutions?
In the United States, there is almost nowhere that is not simultaneously very rich and very poor.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
‘Rerum Novarum’ is 130 years old. What would Leo XIII say about today’s gig economy?
An an important anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s famous encyclical on workers’ rights, a look at how ‘Rerum Novarum’ applies to the vagaries of our new economy.