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- A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black’s Knight prevents Black’s Bishop from applying check. So move it: 1. . . . Ng4 2. g2g3 (If White…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “I will not use the new name for the Gulf of Mexico. The name has historical roots and we need…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “1. . . . . . . N×f3+ If 2. B×f3 . . B-d4+ 3. K-f1 . . R-h1# If…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on 21 January – “O glorious St. Agnes, intercede with Christ the High Priest for a return of orthodoxy, sanity and sanctity to the Roman Church!”: “With her death St. Agnes brought to an end the Roman persecution of our Holy Mother the Church. Let pray…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Can you repost your youthful image of St. Joseph please? I can’t see it. It show an exclamation point in…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O. 2nd Ordinary) 2025: “Attendance was sparser than usual at our 10:30 AM High Mass due to a pending snow storm. Normally almost every…”
- on OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter: “? « Not Found Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help. »”
- on OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter: “Link leads to a dead page, not an audio file.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Note that White’s King is locked down, and has no legal move. We want to keep things that way: 1.…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on Motus in finem velocior – Daily Rome Shot 1224: “The Spada’s chapel in San Gerolamo della Carità. Terrific opus of the “Swiss” architect Borromini.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1224: “In the second game, if Black takes the Queen, Qa4, Pxa4 Bxc4+, Kf8 (or Kg7) Bh6# But if Black doesn’t…”
- on WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 2nd Ordinary): a “liturgical unicorn”: ““Ordinary meaning ordered not unexceptional.” Alas the memo never reached Indonesia, where the church bulletins etc translate the adjective as…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1223 – “Sluggish schizophrenia”: “Enough straw men from Bergoglio to stock all the corn fields in Oz.”
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Tag Archives: economics
10 Questions for Bishops. Can’t answer? Then perhaps this isn’t your strongest suit.
Originally posted on: Nov 20, 2017 @ 11:03 In my text chats one of my interlocutors proposed: “Get someone from ACTON INSTITUTE to make a list of 10 questions that any bishop or priest should be able to answer correctly BEFORE opining … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes
Tagged Acton Institute, economics, poverty
22 Comments
22 Comments
Acton Institute’s Fr. Sirico comments on Pope Francis’ remarks on money
Did you see the comments which Our Holy Father made about money, capitalism, etc? Fr. Robert Sirico of ACTON INSTITUTE is well situated to add some comments of his own about money, capitalism, etc., to build on what the Holy … Read More
Pope Francis and U.S. style capitalism
From Deseret News: NEW YORK — The Rev. Martin Schlag is a trained economist as well as a Catholic moral theologian, and when he first read some of Pope Francis’ powerful critiques of the current free market system he had … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged capitalism, Card. Rodriguez Maradiaga, economics, Pope Francis
20 Comments
20 Comments
Does Pope Francis get what it takes to feed the poor as he calls for?
We don’t have to take every pronouncement or opinion on every topic from every Pope as if it were the Lord’s ipsissima verba. What the Bishop of Rome teaches about concerning faith and morals… those things we Catholics had better … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Francis, The Drill
Tagged Amartya Sen, economics, free market, profit, redistribution of wealth, Tim Worstall
88 Comments
88 Comments
Philip Booth’s column in The Catholic Herald
I direct the readerships attention to an interesting piece in the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, written by Philip Booth who is the “editorial and programme director of the Institute of Economic Affairs”. Booth comments on recent remarks … Read More
Economics of SEX
This video caught my eye, since I posted on the sidebar that I was reading Jay Richard’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (which the people who helped Francis write Evangelii gaudium could … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Lighter fare, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged economics, sex
12 Comments
12 Comments
Andrew Napolitano reacts to Pope Francis comments on economics
I am close to being done with Pope Francis Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium. Let’s remember that it is not an encyclical. It is not even an Apostolic Letter. It’s only an Exhortation. It is, however, an Exhortation which has some … Read More
A couple of good books
Better than any other approach a free market helps to raise large groups of people out of poverty and promotes happiness through earned rewards. During the recent Acton University I think an overarching theme of the talks and presentations was that those who … Read More
Bp. Boyea (D. Lansing) skeptical about need for USCCB document on U.S. economy
When I heard that the bishops of the USCCB in their plenary session were talking about drafting a new document on the economy and related issues, I first reaction was “OH NO! Don’t they learn from history?” I also read … Read More
A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black’s Knight prevents Black’s Bishop from applying check. So move it: 1. . . . Ng4 2. g2g3 (If White…”
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