The Senate cafeteria workers are not asking for much—just an improved hourly rate that has a chance of catching up to inflation and something close to the health insurance abundance enjoyed by the senators they serve each day.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican investments must contribute to ‘a more just and sustainable world,’ new policy says
The Vatican released a new policy consolidating the investment portfolios of all offices and keeping all current and future investments in line with the social doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How America Sold Out Little League Baseball
In the United States, baseball is becoming a mostly white country-club sport for upper-class families to consume, like a snorkeling vacation or a round of golf.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Three questions white Catholics must ask themselves after the racist shooting in Buffalo
In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, Catholic social teaching can provide a starting point for addressing a society that disregards lives, particularly those of Black people.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
An Amazon site has finally unionized. This Catholic principle explains why the workers won.
The principle of subsidiarity helps explain why labor organizers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island were able to build trust and win support from the rank-and-file.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Partisanship is becoming a religion unto itself. How do Catholics respond in the voting booth?
Notre Dame researchers are exploring a surprisingly complex aspect of Catholic life: how Catholics vote. The report focused on the unique pressures and behaviors of “seamless garment” Catholics in making electoral decisions.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Can you be pro-life and own guns?
When talking about gun control policies, we must center our conversation around the sanctity of human life.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
We need to make the common good more than just a slogan
Christians today are split between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to re-invigorating our sense of the common good.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: These six Ugandan leaders have enacted the ideals of Catholic social teaching
In “For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda,” J. J. Carney profiles a strategy for being both Catholic and catholic—both uniquely ourselves and totally for the world.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic critics of ‘woke’ ideology risk repeating the church’s Modernist crisis of over 100 years ago
The temptation is to fight the ghosts of Modernism by denigrating those working for social justice and “elites” as anti-religious co-conspirators. But this would be a disservice to the truth and to the church.