Hans de Salas-del Valle, J.D., is an Emerging Scholar at Creighton University School of Law (Omaha, Nebraska) and a graduate of the M.A. program in John Paul II Studies at the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas). His work engages Catholic social teaching, geopolitics, and political philosophy.
Debt forgiveness was not an act of discretionary charity but a matter of divine justice — a God-ordered liberation of persons and families crushed by debt and indentured to creditors.