In the early months of the COVID-19 crisis, more than 1,200 economists from around the world urged governments in an open letter to deploy an emergency...
Economic justice
Envy is one of the dread seven deadlies, and like decent folk everywhere I’m squarely against it. But I’m not sure envy is the right descriptive for the...
Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home) is often referred to as Pope Francis’ “environmental” encyclical. Indeed, the contribution...
In the throes of the Salvadoran Civil War, St. Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered because he stood with his people against oppression. Prior to his death...
In his latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship), Pope Francis challenged the hallowed trickle-down effect, that mystical lifter...
Since the civil rights movement first troubled the American conscience 70 years ago with moral appeals to confront the nation’s original sin of racism...
Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future Pope Francis (Simon & Schuster, 2020) Pope Francis’ Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future (Simon &...
As the holiday season approaches, many parishes are undoubtedly preparing to launch annual gift drives to mark the season. Some will hang ornaments on a tree...
Watching our children struggle to connect with classmates and teachers over iPads, pondering strategies for safely returning to work or for finding new work...
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. Dom Hélder Câmara offered this statement at a...
