Does the Catholic Church Practice what it preaches about a just wage? The response of church employees, ranging from lay ministers to chaplains to hospital...
Economic justice
It's pretty subdued day at Our Lady of Mercy School on Chicago's Northwest Side. Most of the kids are in class, huddled over Terra Nova achievement...
One reason "Mission Impossible" was so successful as a thriller this year it that lots of American workers could understand Tom Cruise's sense of...
Laypeople who make a living in the church love what they do–but don't always love the pay. Since the beginning Christian leaders have taken...
Community is the first casualty in America's labor wars It's been one roller-coaster ride to hell, and it's still going down.-a Staley worker The...
Billions of the world's poorest are being denied even the most basic natural resource. Most of us in the west have grown used to thinking about...
Deferring infrastructure maintenance for war spending builds a bridge to nowhere. After watching coverage of the minneapolis-St. Paul I-35W bridge collapse...
Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash. Bags of wheat or rice, stamped "U.S.A." and pitched onto a...
Forgive us our bad debts–many of which were made fraudulently to developing countries. Ecuador's new president, Rafael Correa, pledged during his...
The annual Woodstock for Catholic social justice geeks, the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, opened this morning with a keynote address from...
