How Catholicism Created Capitalism

Catholic Exchange ^ | August 14, 2003 | Michael Novak

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Capitalism, it is usually assumed, flowered around the same time as the Enlightenment — the eighteenth century — and, like the Enlightenment, entailed a diminution of organized religion. In fact, the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was the main locus for the first flowerings of capitalism.

It was not really capitalism as we know today,especially in the modern sense like in the US system, it was Distributism the Church founded. Capitalism rots from the inside due to usury and greed

Anything associated with protestant enlightenment idea is based upon denial of the supernatural,thus anything that flows from this eventially fails

From 1851 article from La Civiltà Cattolica...

“Once they abolished the supernatural realm and returned to pagan rationalism, the modernizers of society found that they could not stop. They had to continue their demolition, beginning with the moral truths that serve as a foundation for the existence and order of society, and then society’s whole natural organic structure….All that remains to do now is to have the individual unlearn all the essences of things, deny all the laws of logic, and burrow into the Night of complete ignorance in order that he be said to reach the apex of perfect liberty.” (La Civiltà Cattolica, I, vii, 1851, 45; II, i, 1853, 31.)