“It’s an ocean of wealth” is how one banker describes the money held by family offices, that is, wealth management teams (accountants, lawyers, finance types) dedicated to protecting and growing the fortunes of the wealthiest […]
The problem with government today is that it leaves out human beings. That’s not an oversight. It follows from the basic principles on which public thought is now carried on. The kind of thought now […]
The “patron saint” of today’s Democratic Socialists of America got his start with Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement. But for Day, prayer and the sacraments […]
I have believed for some time that this issue of how we communicate is perhaps as important as what we communicate—that is, if we are […]
St. John Paul II’s recognition of the dynamics of post-Cold War economies was not drawn from his Polish experience, but from intense conversations with western […]
New forms of organization provide vehicles through which business professionals can answer the challenge that the Church places before them. […]
In a ward of a London hospital, a homeless man was dying. He had been found prostrate on the street and was taken to a nearby hospital. The medical staff did all they could. It […]
Dr. Samuel Gregg, a regular contributor to CWR, writes at The Federalist about the convenience of Pope Francis rejecting populism while also, in many ways, drawing upon and using populism to his advantage: But Francis’s populist side […]
Eighty years ago this week, Pope Pius XI issued two encyclicals condemning two of the most brutal regimes in history: Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union. Pius released Mit Brennender Sorge (“On the Church […]
Have you ever struggled with what to do when you encounter a person on the sidewalk of a major city or standing at a busy traffic intersection with a cup in hand? Have you given […]
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