"A morality that believes itself able to dispense with the technical
knowledge of economic laws is not morality but moralism."
—Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, "Church and economy: Responsibility
for the future of the world economy," Communio 13.3 (Fall 1986):
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On the right to access to water:
Jordan Ballor, "Even Big Bird Knows Better", Acton Institute PowerBlog (Jan 23, 2007).
C. S. Morrissey, "Facing the crusade against bottled water", The B.C. Catholic (Dec 13, 2010), 7. [HTML version]
C. S. Morrissey, "The right to water, 'an essential element': Human connectivity can be enabled by 'a network of economic institutions,' Pope Benedict writes", The B.C. Catholic (Jan 24, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
C. S. Morrissey, "Bottling up discontent over water issues", The B.C. Catholic (Feb 28, 2011), 7.
Louie Glinzak, "Evaluating the Global Water Crisis", Acton Institute PowerBlog (Mar 28, 2011).
Louie Glinzak, "The Case for Water Privatization", Acton Institute PowerBlog (Mar 31, 2011).
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, "Does D&P not get it?", Catholic Register (Apr 5, 2011).
"Catholic Register: D&P ‘guilty of either appallingly poor judgment or blatant incompetence’", Catholic Register (Apr 6, 2011).
Louie Glinzak, "Water is not a human right", Acton Institute PowerBlog (Apr 12, 2011).
Louie Glinzak, "Water: A Right or a Commodity?", Acton Institute PowerBlog (July 12, 2011).
Kishore Jayabalan, "Does the Vatican think water should be ‘free’?" (Mar 27, 2012).
George McGraw, "The ‘Right to Water’ is not ‘Free Water for All’" (Mar 28, 2012).
Kishore Jayabalan, "Reply to George McGraw and Catholic World News on ‘The Right to Water’" (Mar 30, 2012).
John Challinor, "Water into whine", Globe and Mail (April 20, 2010).
On the injustice of agriculture subsidies and "fair trade":
C. S. Morrissey, "'Fair trade' fails to live up to its message", in The B.C. Catholic (Jul 11, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
Brian M. Carney, The Weekend Interview with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe: "Can the World Still Feed Itself?", WSJ.com (Sep 3, 2011).
C. S. Morrissey, "Is Fair Trade really a poverty solution?", in The B.C. Catholic (Sep 12, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
C. S. Morrissey, "Do you take unfair cream & sugar with your 'fair trade' coffee?", in The B.C. Catholic (Sep 19, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
Joseph Sunde, "A Real Fair Trade Solution: Kill the Big Ag Behemoth", Remnant Culture (Sep 29, 2011).
Christine Rousselle, "Speaker Asks, "Fair" Trade?", The Cowl (Oct 20, 2011).
Jacques Maritain on natural law: the best philosophical account of the basis for human rights
Benedict XVI, "Address to the participants of the International Congress on Natural Moral Law" (Feb 12, 2007)
John D. Mueller, Redeeming Economics (ISI Books, 2010).
Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, "Religion, Philosophy and Economics" (Oct 28–29, 2011).
Hadley Arkes, "A New Center for Natural Law", The Catholic Thing (Oct 25, 2011).
Ludwig von Mises, "Capitalism versus Socialism".