The Ancients and the Scholastics - Survey article from the History of Economic Thought website. - http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/ancients.htm
Thomas Aquinas: On Usury - From the Medieval Sourcebook. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aquinas-usury.html
Churches Come to Terms with Moneylending - An article on how Christian churches came to accept the concept of interest. - http://gvanv.com/compass/arch/v1405/fahey.html
Catholicism and Capitalism - Article by the libertarian Murray Rothbard looking at the two encyclicals, Quadrigisimo Anno and Rerum Novarum. - http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard59.html