While Catholic organizations have stepped up their efforts to help those experiencing homelessness during this summer’s heat wave, they are also preparing for what might be an even greater crisis.
Social Justice
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
I’ve lived under Donald Trump and Fidel Castro. Both taught me the importance of defending truth.
My childhood in Cuba made me prize critical thought. It also made me aware that extremism for the sake of power results in the erosion of truth and agency.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Bishop Stowe: Essential workers sacrificed their safety during the pandemic. Now Congress must pass stronger labor protections.
“Essential” workers have returned to “normal,” confronting the low wages, poor-to-no benefits—including no paid sick time or company-sponsored health insurance—they faced before the crisis.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic Church in Colombia calls for peace amid waves of anti-government protests
What began on April 28 as a public reaction to a tax reform proposal from President Iván Duque has expanded into a massive mobilization of broad discontent.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Once I discovered liberation theology, I couldn’t be Catholic without it
If the people are in the streets in protest, then the church has to be in the streets in protest, too.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Down with credit cards. Up the minimum wage.
Credit cards make it easy to ignore the reality of how much things cost and how little money most people actually have. This is no accident.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics: Embrace being ‘woke.’ It’s part of our faith tradition.
It is easy to mock “wokeness,” writes Kathleen Bonnette, but developing an awareness of the realities that others face is relevant to the first step of the pastoral cycle: seeing.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis asks every Catholic to join a new grassroots movement to save the environment
Pope Francis asked everyone to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Canada’s bishops withheld aid from groups they thought had ties to abortion. Repairing relationships is proving difficult.
Canada’s bishops remain committed to the success of Development and Peace “as a Canadian, Catholic organization in communion with the Bishops and the universal Church”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics must work to build a society that actually supports families
A more welcoming society for babies, children and families must work on many levels. Catholics should be leading that charge.