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If you see Father Sirico there, tell him that some guy in Kansas loved his brother's portrayal of Paulie Walnuts on the Sopranos!
In all seriousness, I wonder how much the poor guy has to put up with talk about his brother Tony.
Have a good time in GR!
Thomas, I am one of Bishop Robert Finn's seminarians for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. I will also be at the symposium. It would be a pleasure to meet you, even if only for a few moments. I'm sure you will be busy, but please wave at me if you happen to notice my name tag. Name is Nicholas Roberts.
My prayers for a fruitful experience at this year's symposium!
Don't forget to read what the Church actually teaches on these topics.
Katrina, do you not realize that comments such as yours above come across as catty quips, or do you realize it, and just don't care about the impression they create? Not that it really matters to me either way, but as you are obviously someone who takes ideas seriously, as are most of the readers of this blog, I would think that you would want to convey intelligence more than petulance. Then again, maybe it's just me, you know, a sort of generational difference thing. Kind regards, edp.
Ed Peters,
If you have any acquaintance with the Acton Institute's publications (e.g., Markets and Morality) as Katerina and I do, I think you'd recognize both the truth and sarcasm in Katerina's comment. But then again, it may just be a sort generational difference thing.
Michael, I can assure you, you know NOTHING about my degree of familiarity with AI, but your own remarks are irrelevant for I simply didn't say anything about AI one way or another. I was talking about..., oh, never mind. This isn't worth it. Perhaps our differences are more than generational. Kind regards, folks.
Sounds interesting. By the way, I'm a new reader here. Looks like some good material.
Thomas,
Love the blog - the only one I check daily. Until this last Feb., I was employed by AI - a great org and the University is a top notch event. Would love to meet you while you are in town if possible. Enjoy the event.
You tell them Ed! You're one cool dude. At least in my book. Posts like Katerina's and Michael's are examples of people who need our prayers the most.
Happy birthday Thomas! -- Give my regards to Fr. Sirico and Dr. Gregg.
I hope you'll be blogging more on your adventures with the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? ;-)
Thanks Christopher, I'll do my best. Prof. Gregg is brilliant and I have Fr. Sirico for a lecture tomorrow.
I've had an extremely fruitful conference experience so far. Of particular note to some of the people in this thread was a long conversation I had today with the man in charge of Justice & Peace's environmental research committee for five years recently. Most illuminating.
Combining the theology of the Acton Institute with James Inhofe's views that global warming is a conspiracy theory-- tell me, how is the American National Church doing these days?
What's the Acton Institute's views on telling the inhabitants of Pacific islands whose economy is decimated by global warming simply to leave, as you did? And, for that matter, will they teach you about the Stern review (that report, by the way is REAL economics, and take that from somebody who knows).
I'm going to be in Grand Rapids in a couple of weeks for a conference at Calvin College. Do you have any suggestions re: daily Mass venues?
i get a kick out of it when when people speak of 'real economics', implying the Austrian school isn't economics. (And a great place for Mass is Sacred Heart, near John Ball Zoo...)
odd especially since JP2 used the input an austrian economist in his drafting of centessimus annus...
odd especially since JP2 used the input an austrian economist in his drafting of centessimus annus...
"Austrian" as in what?
All Austrian economists are Austrian economists (tautology). Some Austrian economists belong to schools which advocate free enterprise such as the Ludwig Mises Institute. Some Austrian economists do not belong to schools which advocate free enterprise. Therefore, not all Austrian economists advocate free enterprise.
In other words, perhaps more precision is necessary. I think you meant to say that John Paul II consulted an economist of the traditional Austrian School of economics.
Truth is, John Paul II sought the input of a number economists and schools worldwide, including that of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, which is highly critical of the "culture industry" advocated by the Austrian school and the Acton Istitute. Centissimus Annus canonizes neither the Austrian nor Frankfurt schools' theories, despite what the revisionist analysis of Fr. Neuhaus may indicate. Truth be told, a text-to-text analysis reveals that John Paul II's anthropological foundations, upon which he builds his economic views, are quite different than those that have emerged from the Austrian (influenced by Locke, Mill, Hume and Smith) or Critical Theory schools (influenced by Hegel, Marx, Adorno and Horkheimer). They look remarkably close, however, to those of the distributist models advocated more recently by the likes of Chesterton, Belloc, Maritain, Mournier and Ratzinger.
Despite the diversity found in John Paul II's economic pool, you will find that the Acton Institute tends to provide a very one-sided and historically dishonest account of the economic influences on John Paul II's thought:
"The Late-Scholastic and Austrian Link to Modern Catholic Economic Thought"
Start with this article by Fr. Sirico in the first volume of AI's journal, Journal of Markets and Morality. Look through some of the others--you'll get the impression that John Paul II had a copy of Novak's The Spirit of Democratic Captialism and DiLorenzo's How Capitalism Saved America sitting on CA's drafting table!
Kathy,
If you are still looking for daily mass venues, check out St. Isidore (7 a.m. daily), Sacred Heart (7:30 a.m. daily) or SS. Peter and Paul (8 a.m. daily). All excellent parishes.
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