Thus, the high medieval church provided the conditions for F. A. Hayek’s famous “spontaneous order” of the market to emerge. This cannot happen in lawless and chaotic times; in order to function, capitalism requires rules that allow for predictable economic activity.
My cousin is actually running a dairy farm and a bit of an old age home. They hire townspeople to work the operation. He's right around 65 and I think he is, in part, Abbott because he is the ambulatory one. I'm sure I'm over speaking, but there is something to that.
It seems to be true in the Catholic Church as well. From my friend the ex seminarian says the old seminaries are closing or becoming old age homes for elderly priests and nuns.
No expert in this, just some passing knowledge in conversation.
BUT......
To the bit about capitalisism needing order, that is likely true. You need rules and faith and trust for trade to flourish. Disrupt that and the whole system comes down. That's what they were so afraid of in 2008, the locking up of money markets because no one knew if they could trust anyone else.
I think "they" all know they lie and suspect everyone else of lying too. So it's a shaky alliance that keeps the house of cards balanced.