Should We Charge Interest on Loans? from New Polity

Should We Charge Interest on Loans?

1 hour 19 minutes Posted Sep 20, 2022 at 7:24 pm.

John T Noonan "Authority, Usury, and Contraception" 

Rather than listing all the citations here we link to Robert P. Maloney's 'THE TEACHING OF THE FATHERS ON USURY: AN HISTORICAL STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN THINKING' where he walks through the patristic Tradition on Usury in chronological order. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1582909 

Benedict XIV Vix Pervenit 

Lateran V Session 10 May 4, 1515 

"Laborem 12" 

John Finnis', Molina's arguments on usury referenced are from:  Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory by John Finnis Treatise on Loans and Usury by Molina 

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Charging interest on a loan is still a sin. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying. Marc and Jacob DEMOLISH some of the popular excuses for committing an act of usury.

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