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By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - the Vatican’s attention economy contributes to the idea that belief or practice X is widespread enough that X can appear to the faithful (or even the hierarchy) as something definitively Catholic, without it actually being a permanent or even important part of the Church’s faith. This overwhelming focus on the papacy distracts Catholics from all the beautiful sources of the Christian Faith that can help us through this vale of sorrow, denying us the spiritual riches of the great Tradition that originally attracted some of us to the Catholic Church in the first place.

By Alden Abbott, The Catholic Thing - But good moral ends do not guarantee sound economic means. The encyclical criticizes market economics for allowing profit, technological efficiency, and concentrated ownership to outrun solidarity. It warns that automation may displace workers, data may become an instrument of control, and the benefits of innovation may be captured by a narrow elite... It therefore calls for stronger public oversight, redistributive taxation, social criteria for innovation, protection of workers, and regulation of AI and data so that economic life becomes more inclusive from the beginning rather than corrected after the fact. ...