At Marquette University I teach a course on Martin Luther King’s ethics and faith. I face two obstacles when teaching about King. The first is that we are too...
Catholic Voices
“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...
Election Day shouldn’t be a time to leave our faith at home. Religion is the problem,” said a friend at a late summer barbecue. “If we could keep religion out...
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...
Life’s unexpected twists and turns need time to reveal the lessons they offer. Mowing the grass doesn’t rank high on the list of major life events, but when...
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...
Workers might have to go half way around the world to celebrate Labor Day this year. In the United States the union movement still endures a regular...
