Our measurements of poverty have changed since Robert F. Kennedy’s historic presidential campaign, but the poor and marginalized still need a champion.
Social Justice
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As the Earth warms, mosquitoes become a social justice issue. Here’s how.
Catholic health care providers say when those places lack the resources to cope, climate change and mosquito-borne illnesses become issues of social justice.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Religious leaders arrested during ‘pray-in’ at U.S. Capitol
The protestors object to widespread racism, voter suppression, anti-immigrant policies and inaction on poverty around the country.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Protesting our country’s nuclear weapons is (still) worth going to jail for
Despite being out of sight, the bombs are as ever-present as micro-aggressions and mass incarceration.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
We need a new pro-life movement built on social justice
By enrolling in a largely pro-choice public health program I was able to articulate a pro-life vision that I could truly believe in.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The church in Nicaragua could bridge the divide between protesters and the government
The dialogue, for many students, is a way to hold the government accountable for the downward spiral of violence, which they blame on Mr. Ortega and his wife and Nicaragua’s vice-president, Rosario Murillo.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Bishop Gerardi was killed 20 years ago in Guatemala. The search for justice continues today.
Trials for genocide and human rights violations are proceeding in Guatemala, even after the death of the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop Gregory: Catholics must stand against race and gender injustices
Speaking in Chicago to a gathering of U.S. priests, Archbishop Wilton Gregory addressed racism, sexism and a host of other societal challenges that “continue to hold us captive.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Jesuit high school student killed during Nicaragua’s deadly protests
Álvaro Manuel Conrado Dávila was shot in the throat by police at close range with a rubber bullet.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic groups concerned by 2018 farm bill
“Eighty percent of the farm bill is around the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It’s significant when we hear it’s going to include some dramatic cuts.”