Archbishop Wester: “Countless nonprofits and civic organizations work to fill food baskets, but some legislators want to take food out of another basket, the grocery basket, with their proposed food tax.”
Economics
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Rooting for the underdog is easy. God asks us to do more.
Accompaniment, unlike charity, can’t be done from a distance.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope Francis on feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: ‘Yes to life, no to exclusion’
In his homily for the feast, Pope Francis denounced the exclusion of so many people “from the train of life.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Hidden homelessness spikes in a high rent New York
New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Europe’s union looks shakier than ever.
The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope on Trump: ‘I don’t pass judgment on persons or politicians.’
La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis denounces the ‘basic terrorism’ of a global economy built on exclusion and war
“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Los Angeles contemplates a radical investment in housing
Under Proposition HHH, nearly $1.2 billion would go toward 10,000 “permanent supportive housing” units.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Catholic Caring
Three Catholic charitable organizations that support programs in the United States and around the world rank among the top 100 groups in terms of fundraising.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
‘Chaos Monkeys’ peers through the opacity of online advertising
With a sense of itself as the future of humanity, Facebook proves to be no ordinary company. When you’ve got a billion users, Martínez points out, it doesn’t matter if your advertising model is enormously flawed.