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Robert A. Sirico | Christianity, Social Justice, and Poverty

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The idea of socialism is ancient. Organized socialist movements took form in Europe in the nineteenth century, and socialism emerged as a dominant political ideology in many places around the world by the twentieth century. This second CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will consider socialism, its practice over time, and its resurgence today.

Robert A. Sirico is co-founder and president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the pastor at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish and Academy. He received his Master of Divinity degree from the Catholic University of America, following undergraduate study at the University of Southern California and the University of London. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Financial Times, The Detroit News, and The Washington Times. He has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs on CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, and the BBC, among others. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the American Academy of Religion, and the Philadelphia Society, Rev. Sirico is the author of Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy.

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  5. Alex berenson | marijuana, mental health, violence

    Why are the comments off? Wouldn’t want any kind of open discussion about your propaganda now would we?

    Seriously what problem could possibly arise from having comments on? There’s no reason there’s no justification.

    It’s sad

  6. wow…He is so wise and full of knowledge and great understanding. I learned alot. I am always suspect of lots of churches who do so much for the homeless. We are so fragmented like he said, it's hard to do local, most people are transient and moving from here and there.

  8. In Oregon if you let a homeless on your land you can get into a big legal battle to get rid of them and you lose control of your land. They have all the rights and the homeowner pays the everything. The government wants to control services so people sleep on the right of way. Portland parks have a new rule requiring permits for private groups to feed people and restrictions on how often it can happen. It seems many homeowners don't want the homeless around and the cops, who knows.

  13. Crony capitalism is just capitalism working exactly as supposed.
    Corporations purchasing politicians in order to have laws to maximize profits is pure capitalist ideal.

    I too, do believe in the free market with very few regulations just to insure that corporations don’t genocide people or pollute the world again.

  14. Businesses may have gotten millions of people out of poverty, but it was done by oppressing other people into even worse conditions or from liberty but poor into slavery and even more poor.

    Businesses cannot solve poverty. Neither can charity. Poverty is an institutional condition in our society. Without institutional solutions, poverty won’t be solved.

  16. Btw even god and the ancient Israelites did not rely on private charity. Charity was enshrined in their law. Gods people should be all about making a government that enshrines welfare into law.
    Where back then it was returning the coat to the debtor, today would be a housing as a right. Where back then it was forgiving all debts every 7 years, today would be student loans and medical loans debt forgiveness.
    Where before it was commanded to not go through your fields twice or thrice or to not pick up the harvest that felled onto the floor, today would be food stamps.

  20. The destructive effect of poverty on families and society is well documented. Exploitation of the American economy and the American people by a rigged game globalist totalitarianism and a morally bankrupt Congress has reduced the American Worker to a state of serfdom. Statistics for suicide, drug addiction, gang violence, unemployment and incarceration are through the roof. Despite poor pay and debt (this is a debt economy) American productivity is unparalleled. Cities are in decline and "Pelosivilles" filled with the homeless and mentally challenged are springing up
    all over America. Nobody wants a Socialist/Communist state run society, but this presentation is a whitewash of a failed and corrupt system. Perhaps Mr. Sirico should take a lesson from the founder of Christianity. It's time to drive the money lenders and thieves out of the Temple.

  22. I'm so thankful there are institutions like Hillsdale College. Free thought in schools of higher learning are on a steep decline. Hillsdale College still values freedom of speech and thought.
    It concerns me that schools like Hillsdale are outnumbered.
    I'm hoping students from other schools will moderate their beliefs once they leave the schools of indoctrination and begin thinking for themselves.
    Yes, that's a lot of hope.

  24. An inheritor of Jesus Christ and Paul so naturally familiar with faith, hope and charity. It is the dangers of charity that is highlighted before an audience equally familiar with 'The Wealth of Nations'. One perhaps naive questioner is dubious, but not sufficient time to fully address that. Perhaps, if he would be perfect, he might sell all he owns, give the money to the poor and follow Jesus.