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.
Economics
Posted inFaith, Features
The Christian argument for more stay-at-home dads
Putting an end to the cultural pressure that prevents men from taking on caregiving roles.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Ambongo: The Congo faces similar problems to the ones we see in the Amazon
The cardinal expects the synod’s final document to highlight the different levels of “responsibility towards Mother Earth, towards the natural environment, and on this we are all in agreement. What is said of Amazonia is also true of the Congo basin.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Food is becoming an avenue of personal destruction
Pope Francis said, “We must come to realize that what we are accumulating and wasting is the bread of the poor.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘American Factory’ review: Made in America (by the Chinese)
The Netflix film offers a stunning degree of intimacy through the startup of a factory once run by General Motors.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Universal basic income is having a moment. Can advocates convince a skeptical public?
Everybody would get this money, regardless of their wealth or income: you, your mom, Bill Gates. The payments would be made for life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The backlash against globalization
In his new book, Ian Bremmer predicts that soon Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Egypt, China and many others will all have their own Marie Le Pens and Steve Bannons.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis praises diversity of Mauritius but encourages greater openness to migrants
Pope Francis encouraged the Mauritian people to support “a better division of income and the integral promotion of the poor” and “not to yield to the temptation of an idolatrous economic model that sacrifices human lives on the altar of speculation and profit alone.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Argentine bishops ask government to declare food emergency
Since early July, Argentina’s currency, the peso, has plunged more than 20 percent, while inflation has soared to more than 50 percent, as investors sour on the South American country and the Peronist movement.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Amazon’s tax breaks can promote the common good
The collapse of a tax incentive deal to bring Amazon jobs to New York was nothing to celebrate, writes Joseph J. Dunn. A “we don’t negotiate” policy is foolish for communities that need jobs.