In our search for viable economic models, we would do well to look to the cooperatives and collective enterprises that have worked well elsewhere, including some surprisingly long-lived examples from northern Italy.
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When a Jew and a Catholic marry
There are tens of thousands of Jewish-Catholic intermarriages in the United States, and a good number of them involve partners with strong commitments to their separate traditions.
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How Cajun country, an old ambulance and 1,200 frog legs led me back to the confessional.
On finding reconciliation in a post-contrition era.
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I’m a conservative Latina. Is there a place for me in Trump’s Republican Party after Charlottesville?
In the face of an emboldened white supremacy movement, I find the defensive posture of some conservatives more and more trying.
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Can Catholic social teaching help solve the labor crisis?
We need an economy that enables people to apply their energies to meaningful work that advances the common good.
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How Bishop Ruiz built the church in Southern Mexico long before Pope Francis spoke of the peripheries
Bishop Ruiz preached “evangelization by the poor,” instructed his priests to study local indigenous languages and trained hundreds of catechists and deacons.
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How Augustine’s Confessions and left politics inspired my conversion to Catholicism
Without quite knowing it, I had begun to rely on the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.
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How Catholic health care is fighting against the campaign for physician-assisted suicide
As technology allows bodies to live longer than ever before, palliative care could playing an increasingly important role in end-of-life decisions.
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The document that changed Catholic education forever
Although most agree that the Land O’ Lakes statement has had a pervasive influence on Catholic higher education over the last 50 years, many have seen its influence as unconstructive or simply pernicious.
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Prayer, puppets and pleas for peace in Gaza
After countless wars, the Palestinian citizens of a tiny strip of land surrounded by Israel find a way to persevere.