Eavesdropping on a Facebook conversation my wife was having with some conservatives, and they sent her a well produced, but intellectually 5th grade level, video on a certain view of "liberty," mainly a diatribe against social responsibility and community. You know, John Galt crap.
Anyway, I knew many hardcore Catholics were on this list so I Googled around a bit to find this bit from Pope benedict's Encyclical of last year...
Georgetown/On Faith: Pope Benedict on Economic Justice - Thomas J. Reese
Sphere: Related ContentThe pope disagrees with those who believe that the economy should be free of government regulation. "The conviction that the economy must be autonomous, that it must be shielded from 'influences' of a moral character, has led man to abuse the economic process in a thoroughly destructive way," he writes. "In the long term, these convictions have led to economic, social and political systems that trample upon personal and social freedom, and are therefore unable to deliver the justice that they promise."
Benedict even supports "a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago."
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