Investing for profit can be a Catholic virtue if the common good is kept in mind. So look for companies that provide the things essential for everyday life, like food and housing.
Social Justice
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Social justice isn’t really a new religion. It still hasn’t figured out forgiveness.
Here in deep-blue Manhattan, I know a lot of people who would indeed see “religion” as a slur.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
From 1981: Father Carl Kabat of the Plowshares Eight on the risk of speaking truth
Five months after the “Plowshares Eight” performed a peace witness at the G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Pa., its members—including the Rev. Carl Kabat—were found guilty of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy. Father Kabat is profiled here.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
How a Franciscan labor priest is helping Senate cafeteria workers in their fight for a new union contract
The Senate cafeteria workers are not asking for much—just an improved hourly rate that has a chance of catching up to inflation and something close to the health insurance abundance enjoyed by the senators they serve each day.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
R.I.P. Tom Cornell, prophet of peace and lifelong friend of the Catholic Worker
Tom Cornell, who died on Aug. 1 at the age of 88, was truly one of the architects of the American Catholic peace movement.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The eucharistic revival should remind Catholics: Communion means working for social justice.
It is my hope that the bishops’ campaign inspires not just an intellectual conversion but a religious conversion, propelling American Catholics to fight for a more just economy and a more Christian society.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Biden awards Sister Simone Campbell Presidential Medal of Freedom, noting her role in passing the Affordable Care Act
Sister Simone Campbell, a longtime advocate for economic justice and health care policy, and late labor leader Richard Trumka received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a White House ceremony.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Raw, brilliant and prophetic: Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged concert 20 years later
The music industry didn’t know what do with Lauryn Hill’s rare, self-confessing and Christ-centered performance.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
50 years after a group of Catholic sisters formed Network, the activist group pledges to focus on racial justice
Network, known for its “Nuns on the Bus” campaign, is celebrating an anniversary. But it is not slowing down its efforts toward creating a racially, economically and socially just world.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As inflation spikes, ‘slum priests’ struggle to help the poor in Argentina
“Slum priests” continue to play an important role in many villas in Buenos Aires, helping these marginalized communities organize for social services and reforms.