I spent the past year writing about the economy through the lens of Catholic social teaching. Here’s what I learned.
The Moral Economy
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Is it time for Catholics to stop eating meat?
The carnivorous cravings of a world of almost eight billion people have radically changed the definition of life on this planet.
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How should Catholics think about gentrification? Pope Francis has some ideas about urban planning
In surprisingly close accordance with Catholic social teaching, most urban planners say that people should live in close, interactive communities.
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The U.S. economy sets up ex-prisoners for failure. The consequences are disastrous.
How we treat people coming out of prison is a measure of the morality of our economy.
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Global trade is here to stay. But have we reckoned with the moral costs of its conveniences?
Hyperglobalization means cheap goods delivered fast. It also has implications for labor conditions, economic inequality and the environment, all of which we can no longer ignore.
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Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue
For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.
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Private and religious groups are starting to pay reparations for slavery—but it’s nowhere near enough.
“From a Catholic point of view, there’s no question that reparations make sense.”
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Pope Francis is right: modern poverty in the United States is a scandal. But what are possible solutions?
In the United States, there is almost nowhere that is not simultaneously very rich and very poor.
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It’s easy to hate ‘the media.’ But local journalism is essential (and holy) work.
Journalism gets attention when it breaks big stories about institutions like Enron and the Catholic Church. But they can only do that work if they are consistently read — and broadly trusted.
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The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio.