A government-ordered lockdown couldn’t extinguish the May Day protest spirit in Greece, where demonstrators lined up 6 feet apart in careful rows in Athens’ Syntagma Square.
Economics
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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 inFaith, Faith in Focus
We are living in an apocalypse
The coronavirus pandemic has caused our world, as we know it, to end. But there might be a better world around the bend, a better arrangement than the one we have grown used to.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What the Covid-19 stimulus package says about essential workers and our social values
The coronavirus is drawing attention to the essential roles of many low-paid workers, writes Joseph J. Dunn, and Washington is treating them better than it did in the stimulus laws passed during the last recession.
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What 12-step programs can teach us about the true meaning of work
The value of work is that it gives structure to life’s chaos; it is simple, intelligible even when your own heart is baffling; it lets you be of service to others, making every job well done a kind of living amends; and, above all, good work brings humility.
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Powerful G.O.P. allies propel Trump effort to reopen economy
Behind President Donald Trump’s effort to accelerate re-opening the U.S. economy during the pandemic is a contingent of GOP allies eager to have his back.
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How well will Catholic media weather the coronavirus downturn?
On April 9, the international Catholic publishing powerhouse Bayard announced that it would soon cease print publication of four magazines: Catechist, Hopeful Living, Today’s Catholic Teacher and Catholic Digest.
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Podcast: Pope Francis proposed international debt relief. Could it happen?
This week on the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, the hosts look back at the response to St. John Paul II’s call for debt forgiveness in 2000.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
In Easter message, Pope Francis proposes ‘universal basic wage’
Pope Francis said in an Easter Sunday message that the coronavirus epidemic could also be an opportunity for affluent societies to re-evaluate patterns of consumption and exploitation.
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Catholic Charities: Nonprofits need more government aid to respond to coronavirus economic fallout
Catholic Charities leaders say that while the government relief package signed into law on March 27 by President Trump will help meet some of the initial need, much more action is needed for charities to be able to meet the expected demand.