The War of the Powerful against the Pope, by Arthur Gibbs
by Arthur Gibbs George Weigel alleged that the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome produced left-wing nostrums into the encyclical, Caritas in...
The Global Financial Crisis: Opportunity for Transformation
On 9 September 2009, Professor John Langmore addressed Social Policy Connection on the causes of the current global financial crisis and the opportunities it...
The Global Financial Crisis, Overseas Aid, and Climate Change
By Bill Frilay Over the past year I have written position papers on the above topics. There are interrelationships between each of these topics....
Pope & market forces – B. Duncan – the Age
If ever there was a need to consolidate a new ethical foundation for economics and business, it is surely now. Hence there has been...
Pope confronts economic injustice – B. Duncan
By Bruce Duncan Pope Benedict’s new encyclical is not the strident critique of capitalism some were expecting, but it is nonetheless a robust critique...
Making taxation more equitable
Social Policy Connections welcomed Professor John Fox as guest speaker on 18 March 2009 at the Yarra Theological Union in Box Hill. Professor Fox...
The popes versus the free market
Pope Benedict’s new social encyclical is finished and will be released in May. It will commemorate Paul VI’s 1967 document on the development of...
Moral purpose and the International Economy
Leading economists warned about the corruption of ethics in international finance. The world needs a renewed moral vision of how the economy must serve...
Global Economic Crisis
Bill Frilay The paper of December 2008 draws on information and the opinions of many on the Global Financial Crisis. It looks at what...