We live in the age of the aging, and our capitalist economy is struggling to cope.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about the American Work Force
Human dignity does not depend on having a job.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
To understand Pope Francis, you have to know what he actually means by the word ‘fraternity’
In a world that trivializes kinship more and more, Pope Francis’ retrieval of the concept of fraternity is timely and challenging.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Rep. Tom Suozzi: How Joe Biden’s Catholic faith will guide his presidency
As president, Joe Biden will have to seek common ground across a wide ideological spectrum, writes Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York. His relationship with God as a Catholic will help him to do so.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The most essential or most vulnerable: Who should get the coronavirus vaccine first?
This weekend, a C.D.C. panel will likely decide which group should get the Covid-19 vaccine next. Thousands of lives hang in the balance, writes the Catholic ethicist Charles Camosy.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
How should pro-life Catholics who voted for Joe Biden approach the next four years?
Many members of the Catholic community who voted for Biden did so to promote racial, economic and environmental justice—not to undermine human life.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
The Top 3 Reasons Catholics Will Vote for Joe Biden
The Catholic case for Joe Biden
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Bishop McElroy: Abortion is a pre-eminent issue for Catholics. But not the only one.
“The assertion that abortion is ‘the’ pre-eminent issue in this political campaign for Catholics is itself a political statement, not a doctrinal one,” Bishop McElroy says.
Posted inFaith, Features
The church is losing touch with working-class Catholics
Mass attendance and Catholic affiliation have been eroding steadily since the 1970s for all income brackets, but the sharpest decline has been among the two bottom economic quartiles.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Czerny on ‘Fratelli Tutti’: Pope Francis addresses a world ‘on the brink’
“We’re on the brink,” Cardinal Czerny said, because people are suffering from “a health collapse and an economic collapse, at the same moment as the Paris Climate Agreement I.O.U.s are coming in and there is a migrant situation that is dire.”