Franciscan Spirituality and Economics
Laszlo Zsolnai ‘Franciscan Spirituality and Economics .’ Religions , 2018, vol.9, no. 10, pp. 288-294 St. Francis was hostile to money and material wealth. He was also against exploitation or misuse of natural creatures and promoted voluntary poverty, sharing, and universal brotherhood. This paper examines the implications of St. Francis’s views for economics. It is argued that St. Francis’s views imply the substantive notion of the term “economic” and favor material sufficiency instead of financial efficiency. Pope Francis’s encyclical… Read More »Franciscan Spirituality and Economics