By J. Peter Nixon This article appeared in the March 2005 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 70, No. 3, pages 24-28). He was six feet tall, with a blond crew cut and...
Catholic social teaching
When we think of labor unions, we often think of the millions of construction workers, truck drivers, hotel employees, nurses, and janitors employed by private...
We had been conversing pleasantly when the bus driver turned to me and said, “I never meet people like you on this bus.” I wanted to ask what he meant, but I...
If you attend a labor union meeting or a rally for workers’ rights anywhere in the country, don’t be surprised to spot a Catholic priest in the crowd. Priests...
On a Friday afternoon in late April, we entered the bustling hallways of New York’s St. Aloysius School in Harlem. Children were pouring out of the doorways...
Shaela Evenson was about to begin her ninth year teaching at Butte Central Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Helena, Montana when she became pregnant with her...
On Thursday night, November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced his executive action limiting deportations of undocumented immigrants to the most...
Why has the church gone silent in the face of recent attacks on organized labor? Indiana’s bishops recently issued a letter deploring the continuing poverty in...
The poorest 50 percent of Americans are struggling with flat or falling income levels, negligible net worth, and bleak prospects. How did this happen? And what...
By John Addison Teevan (Christian’s Library, 2014) In Integrated Justice and Equality: Biblical Wisdom For Those Who Do Good Works, longtime Evangelical pastor...
