Globalization and Free Trade have been driven by powerful forces and have not evolved in any natural economic fashion
with top experts predicting the economic crisis more than ten years ago. It is not something new.
As you may note if you read any of my articles and view my topical art, it will take me a long time
to digest the Pope's encyclical since I am having trouble connecting what I know from my more than 60 years
of multi- experiences in the business world which includes several years in factory work while going to
college full-time. I still intend to review it but apparently also have a need to react to it first.
I pray the Holy Spirit will guide me in this endeavor that I call an economic "ministry" -
One of my first editorial cartoons published in 1994 - (
View most of my topical artwork and editorial cartoons at http://arklineart.fotopages.com )
One of our first editorial cartoons. We did it in
1994 after the passage of NAFTA and GATT unfair trade agreements
The Bewildered New World hears from the Pope. It may be too little and too late.
The essence of women, nuns, sisterhood in
an oasis of love by a 1950s man at http://www.therationale.com/oasis-of-love-and-sisterhood The sisters I had in grade school actually paved the way for me in the work world too. It was all about love
being first.
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Tapsearcher finds:
Laurie Goodstein and Rachel Dunadio from the New
York Times reported the issuing of Pope Benedict economic encyclical was delayed due to the economic crisis. We explored
the latent response of religion and philsophy to the global economic arena at http://www.therationale.com Religion has trailed economic events for a long time instead of making a stand. Newsweek/Washington
Post published a review by Father Thomas J Reese SJ at Georgetown University and some who responded to the article wondered
why Father Reese did not say more about what he thought about it and just repeated sections from it .
