Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Remembering a priest who put Pope Francis and the Good Samaritan’s economics into action
Whether we think “they should get jobs” or “the government should take care of them,” too often we regard the poor dispassionately. The story of the good Samaritan is a better place to start.
Posted inFaith, Ideas
Love, Sex and Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day synthesized seemingly contradictory values with insight and nuance. Perhaps the most perplexing of her beliefs were those on sexuality and romantic love.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Cardinal Czerny on Pope Francis, Catholic social teaching and the legacy of Vatican II
On the season finale of “Jesuitical,” Zac and producer Sebastian Gomes talk with Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., who leads the Vatican’s department for social justice and human development.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Cardinal Dolan: Catholics have a duty to care for immigrants. And the government can’t punish us for that.
The Catholic Church is not a faction of the Republican Party—and Democrats are not the only ones who sometimes view the defense of religious freedom as a pothole instead of a stop sign.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Faith and activism in the City of Angels
‘City of Dignity,’ by Sean T. Dempsey, S.J., tells a story of how progressive religious leaders, organizations and institutions worked to shape Los Angeles into a city where dignity flourished through their grassroots organizing and activism in the decades after World War II until the mid-1990s.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How neighbors going door-to-door cut crime in a Louisiana city
What did four Shreveport neighborhoods with plunging crime rates have in common? They had Friendship Houses, opened and operated by Community Renewal International.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My sister, daughter and the new Barbie all have Down syndrome—here’s how the new doll helps us emulate how Jesus lived
My sister, who has Down syndrome, never had dolls that looked like her growing up. Today, my kids can play with a Barbie who has Down syndrome, which allows all children to welcome people with disabilities.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
When your car causes you to sin: Driving does not encourage us to be our best selves
When we get behind the wheel, it is easy to see other human beings as mere obstacles. We need to acknowledge that driving can distort the moral sense of Catholics and all good people.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
I’m a priest and Writers Guild member. Here’s why Catholics should support the writers strike.
I would like to offer three anecdotes from my life that I hope will speak to what the Writers Guild of America is fighting for and why Catholics should care.