ONE OF MY favorite cartoons is a sketch by Skelly depicting two Catholic bishops delivering a homily on “economic salvation.” One intones from a “Pastoral Letter” while the other squints at an economics textbook held upside down. Between them a large chart shows nonsensical zigzagging lines and the word “Taxes,” on either side of which are “The Poor” and “The Very, Very Rich.” A kneeling parishioner prays: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are talking about.”
Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist, by Richard John Neuhaus (Doubleday, 331 pp., $22)
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