Catholic Insight

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political economy has been dominated by two paradigms: capitalism, with markets and private ownership, and state socialism, with collective state control of production. Both systems promise prosperity and dignity, yet both have significant limitations.

I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldn’t just show up in Rome, so to make a pilgrimage of it.

Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peter’s admonition to ‘Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence’ (1 Peter 3:15).