Noted Catholic Author to Discuss Capitalism and the Church

Joseph Pearce, writer in residence at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn., and director of the Aquinas Center for Faith and Culture, will give a talk titled “Catholicism and Capitalism: Friends or Enemies?” on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library. It is free and open to the public.

Pearce will discuss the teaching of various popes on the issue of social and economic justice, as well as the views of Catholic writers, such as G. K. Chesterton, and Catholic economists, such as E. F. Schumacher.

The author of “Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered” (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006), Pearce is a noted Catholic author. His bestsellers include “The Quest for Shakespeare,” “Tolkien: Man and Myth,” “The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde,” “C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church,” “Literary Converts,” “Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton,” and “Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile.” His books have been published and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Mandarin and Polish.

Pearce is also the editor of the St. Austin Review, an international review of Catholic culture, the series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, and the executive director of Catholic Courses. He has hosted two 13-part television series about Shakespeare on EWTN Global Catholic Network, and has written and presented documentaries on EWTN on the Catholicism of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.”