We can no longer tolerate the serious problems that result from a broken and fragmented health care financing system.
Catholic Social Teaching
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American Indian communities feel Covid’s wrath
The needs of Native Americans during the pandemic are of special concern and humanitarian agencies such as Doctors Without Borders are alerting everyone to that fact.
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How the coronavirus can help us reclaim the virtues of self-sacrifice and prudence
How we choose to behave during the Covid-19 pandemic reveals who we are and whom we want to be, writes Michael Rozier, S.J. It is a time to rediscover true virtues.
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Vatican official, panelists urge looking beyond U.S. during pandemic
During a recent online panel discussion sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and Catholic Relief Services, Cardinal Peter Turkson urged that Catholics “feel for other people” in this pandemic crisis.
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Who suffers most during the coronavirus pandemic?
As we face the challenge of Covid-19, our obligations to the citizens of our own country must not negate our duties to global humanity. Active support for the poor and the displaced will be essential in longer-term efforts for a more just, more inclusive and healthier post-crisis world.
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Go slow in reopening, two business leaders advise at Santa Clara forum
At an April 29 forum at Santa Clara University, business leaders urged prudence with the desire to resume business activity while the pandemic is ongoing.
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Workers’ Memorial Day homily: ‘Profit over people’ robs work of dignity
On the fiftieth anniversary of the enactment of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, a livestreamed Mass sponsored by the Catholic Labor Network was offered in memory of all workers who died doing their jobs.
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The pope just proposed a ‘universal basic wage.’ What does that mean for the United States?
“This may be the time,” he said, “to consider a universal basic wage.” This points to what is usually known as universal basic income—a regular, substantial cash payment to people just for being alive.
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Review: When charity is not enough
Maureen Day is an assistant professor of religion and society at the Franciscan School of Theology and the author of Catholic Activism Today: Personal Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice.
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Our response to the coronavirus pandemic reveals who we truly are
Catholic social teaching offers us principles for reflection, criteria for judgment, guidelines for action which can guide our individual, institutional and national choices.