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Article: How to help the poor. (Correspondence).
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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That the American bishops in the last thirty years have generally offered few creative contributions to economic issues, as William McGurn observes ("The Preacher and the Economist," April), is true. They have not offered ideas; rather they remain in a very dated liberal, statist view concerning economic problems and injustice, following the line of thinking of the late John A. Ryan, "The Right Reverend New Dealer."
Yet, on the other hand, neither have Mr. McGurn and Wall Street offered, or allowed, pace Milton Friedman, any creative ways or thinking to address the glaring and cruel gap in wealth between the few and the many throughout the world. Laissez-faire ...