This article from the Wall Street Journal is a good antidote to the thinking that relates economic circumstances purely nationalistically when we have moved into a planetary economy requiring planetary thinking.
Perhaps this new reality—which is not really so new to those folks who have been paying attention over the past few decades—can explain the great turning toward the one organized institution that has developed a method of thinking that embraces the entire earth, and has refined it over the past two thousand years.
This idea—of a great turning to the Church by people in American public leadership—was one of the ideas that led to the beginning of this blog, which a review of my first posting reveals.