Between spring 1998 and summer 2000, Barbara Ehrenreich took jobs that paid minimum wage or slightly above in Florida, Maine and Minnesota. What she detailed was a world of people living on a financial razor’s edge, unable to afford healthy food or decent housing, but still holding down two and three jobs to try to make ends meet.
Social Justice
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‘Death of a Salesman’ is a bold critique of capitalism. It’s as timely as ever.
Arthur Miller may not have been a religious man, but “Death of a Salesman” suggests that he believes in the holiness of human beings.
Posted inIdeas
Acts of service on display: The Catholic Charities People of Hope Museum shows neighbors helping neighbors
The Catholic Charities People of Hope Museum made its debut on March 26 in New York City, kicking off a three-year travel schedule that will take the museum to locations all across the United States. The project, funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, aims to engage in “immersive storytelling” that shares stories of “neighbors helping neighbors.”
Posted inCatholic Book Club
Tracy Kidder, biographer of a broken world’s ordinary heroes
Tracy Kidder, who died last week at the age 80, wrote on everything from true crime to computer design to retirement homes to genocide to Vietnam to pioneering figures in the world of medicine. He also told stories of hope and inspiration in several of his books, including the monumental ‘Mountains Beyond Mountains.’
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Cesar Chavez allegations lead to canceled Masses, reassessment of social justice legacy
Catholic dioceses and organizations are canceling events and rethinking initiatives honoring the late civil rights icon César Chávez, following newly reported allegations the activist sexually abused several women and girls.
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Top Vatican diplomat tells UN that justice for women and girls demands ‘holistic’ approach
“Ensuring access to justice for women and girls requires more than just formal legal protections. It also involves addressing the root causes that put them at risk, prevent them from seeking justice and ultimately undermine their God-given human dignity,” said Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the U.N.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘One Battle after Another’ and fighting for the kingdom still to come
The Best Picture winner asks: How you keep fighting the good fight even when it seems hopeless?
Posted inFaith in Focus
This Lent, I’m fasting from being an online spectator
It is not simply an act of “fasting from the digital world,” but a deliberate effort toward taking action. If I turn off my phone but never reincorporate myself into the lived world, I will have missed the point.
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How the Sisters of Mercy are fighting homelessness from coast to coast
“I feel like I meet Jesus in those people that I meet on the street every day,” said Luz Eugenia Alvarez, R.S.M.
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Martin Luther King, a Baptist, lived Catholic social justice in ‘extraordinary fashion,’ Cardinal Gregory says
Ordained as a Baptist minister, the Civil Rights leader was well-versed in the church fathers, quoting St. Augustine in his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” asserting that “an unjust law is no law at all.”