Catholic Economics for the 21st Century, by Casey Chalk

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 2, 2023

Casey Chalk is the author of The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity (Emmaus Road Publishing), and The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands (Sophia Institute Press). He has an M.A. in Theology from Christendom College and a Masters in Teaching from the University of Virginia.

Distributism often has poor economic reasoning behind it, but it also posits important points about the role of economies in a just society.

The Cold War (and even the Global War on Terror) American Catholic consensus regarding the objective goods of capitalism now seems a relic of the past. Gone are the days, it would appear, of Catholic thinker Michael Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, which during the pontificate of John Paul II sought to place the Church squarely in the camp of unfettered free markets. Publications such as New Polity and Postliberal Order, popular among younger, intellectual traditionalist Catholics, express contempt for both capitalism and liberalism. …

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