A recent United Nations report offers a sobering assessment on the condition of women. "WOMAN'S WORKS IS NEVER DONE" is an adage that is...
Margin Notes
Discover Margin Notes columns on economic justice and current events, offering thoughtful reflections for Catholics engaging the world.
Third World women could be the new recruits in the global war on poverty. Since commodities first changed hands for cash, the women...
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...
Lord have mercy, for we persist in our obstinate ways, and we close our hearts to you, hiding our shame behind our pride. And so this oddly unreal war...
The disfiguring effects of the current war will be seen long after the smoke has cleared. Demining specialists are fanning out across southern...
The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door. In the colonial period the destitute and desperate escaping the...
We get all kinds of mail here at U.S. Catholic: scripture interpretation pasted together from magazine headlines with biblical verses twisted in a manner King...
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...
There is an epidemic running through the nation’s body politic that kills an estimated 18,000 Americans each year. It’s called lack of health...
