Getting our nation’s budget priorities in order will require a show of solidarity. Thanks to Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, somewhat arcane Catholic...
Margin Notes
Discover Margin Notes columns on economic justice and current events, offering thoughtful reflections for Catholics engaging the world.
The special interest groups pulling legislators’ strings can no longer hide in the shadows. The shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida has...
America’s inflated self-image doesn’t reflect our nation’s obvious flaws. When Harry Potter looks at the magical Mirror of Erised, he sees what he wants to...
Our eating binge is purging the developing world of access to healthy foods. In a world of want where 1.4 billion people are struggling to survive on $1.25 a...
“How oppressed exactly do workers have to be before we consider them slaves?” Here’s a New Year’s resolution that I never thought I would have to...
Amid cries of economic catastrophe, let holiday cheer take the place of fear. This year promises to be a blue Christmas for many. Given the angry tone of the...
It’s the hidden tragedies that tell the real tale of our nation’s economic woes. Don’t tell me your sob stories,” some people will say when you bring up the...
With billions in aid on the chopping block, who is looking out for the world’s poor? The first hard numbers emerging out of the famine in Somalia are...
A trillion-dollar price tag isn’t the only cost of war. While most of the Country’s attention is fixed on how best to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the...
I grew up in a family thick with cops and firemen in a New York suburb peopled by cops and firemen, so it was with a special dread that I watched a churning...
