A shockingly awful public relations campaign is underway for yet another war. We get all kinds of mail here at U.S. Catholic: scripture interpretation pasted...
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Tainted foods from the agricultural-industrial complex are giving new meaning to your favorite casserole "surprise." No one would ever mistake me for...
Unless action replaces delay, our denunciations of genocide are nothing but talk. Darfur has become a marquee global tragedy with celebrities such...
The patient is ailing, the prognosis is poor. It's the nation's major medical emergency. There is an epidemic running through the nation's body...
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...
But the question is whether executions will take a permanent vacation in the United States. Something didn't happen in October that you may not have...
The world's poor face an even bleaker future than polar bears, thanks to global warming. Global warming has proved one of the rare issues capable of...
The annual Woodstock for Catholic social justice geeks, the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, opened this morning with a keynote address from...
