Check out these recent articles from around the web:

Virtue and Economic Life by Morning’s Minion: “This really exposes the incompatibility between Catholicism and libertarianism at a deep anthropological level. For libertarians, self-interest is a virtue, as it leads to more effective and efficient outcomes. But for Catholics, service is always the starting point.”

Nothing to say – and that’s a blessing by Brian Harper: “But when saying, tweeting or posting something becomes our impulse, when keeping up with feeds — whether of the Buzz or Twitter variety — is so compulsive it is uncontrollable, it might be time to step back, let others do the talking and allow the noise in our own minds to die down.”

An election campaign with too little focus on economic concerns by EJ Dionne: “What if they held an election and nobody talked about how to improve people’s lives?”

Is Capitalism Compatible with Conversion? by Andrew Haines: “Yet virtuous people—especially of the compassionate Christian variety—aren’t formed only by rational decisions or chasing equilibrium. Just as well, the virtue they espouse—like the sudden self-emptying of Zacchaeus—is incompatible with an anthropology of absolute self-ownership. An economic system is neither the source nor the end of Christian right action.”

A Letter to Graduates: Whatever Happened to the Common Good? by Jim Wallis: “As you continue your education or embark on your career, consider the personal decisions you can make to seek the common good and promote our best values.”

Globe-trotting Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is almost 84, and working harder than ever by David Gibson: “McCarrick in particular has been on a tear in the past year, traveling to the Philippines to console typhoon victims and visiting geopolitical pivot points such as China and Iran for sensitive talks on religious freedom and nuclear proliferation.”

Is the Chinese Regime Changing its Policy Toward Christianity? by Peter Berger: “The regime, unwilling to give up its power monopoly, will have to look for other sources of legitimation. All of this is already happening. The emerging legitimation is nationalism. Ideologically, this entails suspicion of all ideas deemed to be un-Chinese, including the idea of universal human values, and of religions seen as insufficiently indigenized.”