For Catholics, knowing economic policies matter

Why serving the common good requires a sound understanding of economic matters

I used a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal to explain to my freshman students what, as Catholic citizens, they needed to know by the time they left college. It was a two-paragraph editorial, not especially technical. Catholics were under a serious obligation, I said, to be even more familiar about economic matters affecting the country than others. Here was a brief argument that was clearly intended by the Journal’s Editorial Board for the general reader.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss

It was about the bond crisis in Great Britain last week. How much of it did they understand? How much did they think the typical Catholic understood? Could they reach an informed opinion on the matter?

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