Ivonn Rivera is the winner of the Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership 2023 Award for her “leadership in fighting poverty and injustice in the United States through community-based solutions,”
Poverty
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Permanently expand the child tax credit. It’s the pro-life thing to do.
The child poverty rate was cut almost in half after an expansion of the child tax credit. So why did Congress, including many in the pro-life movement, let the expansion lapse?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
50 years later, Gustavo Gutierrez’s ‘A Theology of Liberation’ remains prophetic.
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s ‘A Theology of Liberation’ was first published in English 50 years ago. That first edition served as a primary introduction to a new way of doing theology and becoming church with the poor and insignificant.
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Remembering a priest who put Pope Francis and the Good Samaritan’s economics into action
Whether we think “they should get jobs” or “the government should take care of them,” too often we regard the poor dispassionately. The story of the good Samaritan is a better place to start.
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Homelessness is proof of our failed economic system
Rather than make it easier to find affordable housing, governments at all levels are trying to “solve” homelessness by criminalizing the actions of homeless people.
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It’s for our common good: School meals should be free for all students
Catholics should support universal free school meals both because it aids the poor and because it promotes the common good.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
‘Love’ gives a theatrical voice to the homeless with humor and heartbreak
“Love,” a new play by Alexander Zeldin, is not a grim report on poverty nor a blistering call for social reform, but simply lets the poor speak their own stories.
Posted inFaith, News
The Vatican gave over $10 million in charity in 2022, with Ukraine getting $2.2 million
The Dicastery for the Service of Charity, led by Polish Cardinal Krajewski, spent $2.2 million (2 million euros) in 2022 for humanitarian help in Ukraine.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Looking for hope in the rice paddies: lessons from my time in Vietnam
Defeating the lie that tells us we cannot truly help the poor
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What can bring together pro-life Republicans and progressive Democrats? Expanding the child tax credit.
The expanded child tax credit kept millions of children out of poverty last year, but it expired amid partisan bickering. Making it permanent would be pro-family, pro-child, pro-life and anti-poverty.