Articles by Thomas Storck
by Thomas Storck Although there are still quite a number of people clinging to the idea that the world is afflicted by a crisis of overpopulation, those who are aware of the statistics know better. In fact, a demographic collapse seems much more likely than a crisis of too many people. Keeping in mind the … More Buildings, Babies, and Changing Our Thinking
by Thomas Storck Max Weber’s 1904 book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has given rise over the last century and more to robust discussion about the spirit of capitalism. Is there such a thing as the spirit of capitalism and if so, what exactly is it, and how is that different from … More CAPITALISM: the Concept and the Reality
by Thomas Storck Capitalism and communism are equally representative forms of this tendency of the world today not only to ignore Christianity, but to supplant it. To speak more precisely, the civilization of capitalism, as it was developed during the nineteenth century through the application to industry of the discoveries of experimental science, has … More Real and Ideal in Catholic Social Doctrine
by Thomas Storck What is usury and is it of any relevance to people today? For the most part, in modern times the term usury has come to mean the taking of excess, often outrageous, interest on a loan. But the classical definition in Catholic theology of usury was something a little different: the taking … More Our Usurious Economy
by Thomas Storck References to or discussions of distributism on the internet are not hard to find. This is gratifying, for I would hazard a guess that fifty years ago almost no one had even heard of distributism. But even though the situation today is in most respects an improvement, these online references to distributism … More Is Distributism Socialism?
by Thomas Storck On Sunday May 8, 1949 The New York Times published a short article entitled “Vatican Paper Assails ‘Atheism’ in Capitalism.” Consisting of only three short paragraphs the article refers to an article just published in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, and written by that paper’s editor-in-chief, Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. The … More A Road Not Taken
Practical Distributism 