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.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
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.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
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.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Should colleges pay their athletes? What Catholic social teaching has to say.
A changing legal landscape in college sports has renewed the discussion of what is “fair” for college athletes when it comes to compensation.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Markets and global elites can’t fix the world’s problems
Anand Giridharadas comes to conclusions that are consonant with the works of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Martha Nussbaum respects the Cynic-Stoic tradition—but she’s ready to correct it
In her brilliant new book, Martha Nussbaum argues for a thrilling vision: the whole biosphere conceived and treated as a “cosmic city,” in which humans carefully do their part to ensure that the capabilities of all creatures can be activated as much as possible.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Marco Rubio promotes ‘common-good capitalism’ at Catholic University
The quest for profit goes too far, he said, when businesses desert the workers and communities that made them profitable in the first place simply to make goods more cheaply in other countries.