A Catholic Worker podcast for the God-fearing working-class. Topics: Catholic Social Teaching, integralism, distributism, integral ecology, intentional community, tradition, liberation theology, etc.
Episodes
Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Elliot, James, and Tom continue our discussion and consider how Thomistic economic principles (and the love of Jesus Christ) applies to the existence of billionaires.
Links
Thomas Aquinas on Money: ST I-II Q2 A1 co., on theft in case of dire need: II-II Q66 A7, on the profit motive: II-II Q77 A4
"History's Largest Mining Operation is About to Begin" | Atlantic
"A Shocking Percentage of World's CO2 Emissions Is Directly Traced to Multinationals" | Science Alert
Outline
0m The Thomistic case against billionaires
11:30 Thomist thoughts on the definition of "theft"
15:00 Discussing hoarding, and the wealth of billionaires shown to scale
26:25 The environmental issue; the impossibility of regulating billionaires
34:08 The love of enemies vs. class envy
47:20 Spiritual warfare and the rampant occultism of the billionaire class
55:00 Closing Prayer
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