A worker’s advocate, feminist leader and civil rights proponent whose work continues today at the age of 93, Dolores Huerta was an under-recognized leader.
Social Justice
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic charity leaders alarmed by Republican efforts to tie debt ceiling debate to work requirements
Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Interview: New Vatican charity leaders look to the future after workplace crisis
Caritas Internationalis held its general assembly in Rome last week and elected a new leadership team to coordinate its work in more than 200 countries.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
César Chávez’s life of prophetic action
The combination of religious faith and prophetic political action that marked César Chávez’s hunger strikes would become typical of many other moments in his long career as a labor organizer turned American icon.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Jordan Neely’s killing on the New York subway reminds us: Dehumanizing language can be fatal
Two recent tragedies, a death on a New York city subway train and a mass shooting in Texas, show that too many of us follow the temptation to describe others as less than human.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What if I’m wrong? A necessary question for every politician and voter
Anyone involved in choosing public policy, directly or indirectly, must consider the possibility that the wrong option will actually make a problem worse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Sargent Shriver and the ‘Catholic streak’ that modern politics needs
In ‘Spiritualizing Politics Without Politicizing Religion,’ James R. Price and Kenneth R. Melchin argue that we need Sargent Shriver’s “Catholic streak” now more than ever to break through what they call the “fog of the contemporary culture wars.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Two novels about women of laughter and resilience
In ‘How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water’ by Angie Cruz and ‘Factory Girls’ by Michelle Gallen, readers encounter female protagonists who are smart, tough, hilarious survivors.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Pope Benedict XVI: Social justice warrior?
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with John Carr, founder of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, about Pope Benedict’s under-appreciated contributions to Catholic social teaching.