The Justice Department’s civil rights division, after an investigation of three and a half years, has cited Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County...
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Today marks the official end of the Iraq war. Violence still plagues the nation, and its future is tenuous. Considering the bang (and shock and awe) with which...
A new census report says that 1 in 2 Americans is now considered low-income or poor. Bryan Cones responds to this report, calling it morally unacceptable. In...
Why doesn't it bother us that 48 percent of Americans–148 million people–are low-income (up to 200 perecent of the poverty line) or poor...
Last night, four of the remaining Republican candidates came out waving their pro-life flags in Iowa, promising that ending abortion will be their top priority...
Yesterday, we passed around our office a strange Forbes column that first recognizes the inequity between affluent white kids and poor black kids and then...
Gene Marks column at Forbes responding to President Obama's recent speech in Kansas, "If I were a poor black kid," starts promisingly enough:...
It was with great sadness that we heard the news yesterday that Lisa Calderone-Stewart, a pioneer in urban youth ministry, died last Friday in hospice care in...
These words, from the USCCB's themes of Catholic social teaching, seemed to be at the heart of a letter the chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on...
After seemingly steering away from social justice issues in recent months, U.S. bishops are taking a stand on two major topics this week. The nation's...
