Chesterton Conference 2011 - Faith in the Marketplace
The Conference will explore the new opportunities for the Catholic social philosophy of Distributism in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).
The faltering, if not failure, of the world’s predominant economic systems of Capitalism and Socialism will also be discussed. The time is ripe for a truly Catholic economic and social vision to be re-presented. Various Catholic thinkers, including G.K. Chesterton and, in Australia, Cardinal Moran and the early members of the Campion Society, gave courageous witness to the relevance of Catholic teaching to modern economic conditions. The Conference will give special attention to the first social encyclicals, Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) and Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno (1931), whose special anniversaries occur in 2011.