As the U.S. bishops gather in Louisville this month, on their agenda will be a discussion of the future of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD)...
Economic justice
When Vincent de Paul entered the priesthood, he was largely motivated by ambition. As a priest, he served the powerful de Gondi family as a tutor and spiritual...
If you suffer from high blood pressure, read Walt Bogdanich and Mike Forsythe’s When McKinsey Comes to Town (Doubleday) with caution and in small doses. The...
Our first outing as a family of five, the day after we brought our youngest home from the hospital, was to the local WIC and Social Services office. Despite...
“They say we are trash people. White trash.” So begins the new book Trash: A Poor White Journey (Broadleaf), written by Cedar Monroe. “It’s a fraught title...
In 2017, a Renaissance masterpiece by Leonardo DaVinci titled Salvator Mundi, which depicts Christ as the savior of the world, sold for $450 million dollars...
Growing up in West Texas, I was accustomed to conservative Christianity from a very young age. Not necessarily a doctrinal conservatism; most Christians I knew...
Sometimes grace breaks through when you break a pattern or, in workplace parlance, when you “pivot.” In 2015, the nonprofit I worked for “pivoted” from funding...
It is common today for Catholics to use the Marxist label as a slur—or, less frequently, as a sign of activist credibility. Yet most Catholics lack even a...
Does FTX mean anything to you? Maybe it depends on your age. I wondered what it was when I started seeing its logo prominently displayed on baseball umpires...
