“No tax reform proposal is acceptable that increases taxes for those living in poverty to help pay for benefits for wealthy citizens.”
Economics
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
How American Theater is wrestling with the Trump era
Three plays invite us to look back on the decade that launched Trump as a time of churning ambivalence and upheaval.
Posted inFaith, Ideas
Are Christians really supposed to be communists? A response to David Bentley Hart
Hart argues that the New Testament condemns not only wealth but virtually all private possession.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
We need a financial James Bond to prevent a ‘Goldfinger’ attack on Bitcoin
A cyber-destruction of Bitcoin deposits would trigger far-reaching consequences, beyond the realm of the Bitcoin world.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishop Dewane to Congress: Don’t cut programs benefiting the poor to pay for tax cuts
“The tax system should be continually evaluated in terms of its impact on the poor.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How does Trump’s tax plan line up with Catholic social teaching?
According to Catholic social tradition, paying taxes is part of the way Catholic citizens contribute to the common good.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How Communists and Catholics Built a Commonwealth
In our search for viable economic models, we would do well to look to the cooperatives and collective enterprises that have worked well elsewhere, including some surprisingly long-lived examples from northern Italy.
Posted inFaith, News
U.S. Bishops’ Labor Day message: “Unions must retain and recover their prophetic voice”
“The entire social pact is built around work. This is the core of the problem. Because when you do not work, or you work badly, you work little or you work too much, it is democracy that enters into crisis, and the entire social pact.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In NAFTA negotiations, Mexico shows cautious optimism
Nafta has been the world’s most valuable trade deal, and its consequences are more deeply felt in Mexico than in the United States or Canada.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Making sense of the tension and contradictions in Kenya and Rwanda’s elections
Two elections this month in eastern and central Africa—in Kenya and Rwanda—have brought out tensions and contradictions in the continent’s democratic process.