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The Working Catholic: Personnel Shortage by Bill Droel Nearly every nursing home is understaffed. The...

The Working Catholic: Social Doctrine Part Seven by Bill Droel There are scores of books...

The Working Catholic: Abortion Stereotypes by Bill Droel One gets the impression nowadays that to...

The Working Catholic: Routine by Bill Droel Clocks are everywhere because our modern economy needs...

The Working Catholic: Culture Despisers by Bill Droel Cardinal Francis George, OMI (1937-2015) of Chicago...

The Working Catholic: Easter Mess by Bill Droel   Advent is Lent; Christmas contains Easter...

The Working Catholic: Social Doctrine, Part Five Catholicism ducked its appointment with modernity for about...

From his earliest preaching days until the conclusion of his life, Rev. Martin Luther King...

Marriage is no place for quid pro quo. Yes, every household has division of labor,...

People need explanations for new, unusual, fluid or disturbing happenings. Those people who have low...

Kellogg has used the lockout tactic before. In October 2013 the cereal company locked out...

Who invented Christmas? Our Blessed Lady is a good answer. In about 3 B.C. she...

In coming days it is obligatory for all preachers to dust off their “Keep Christ...

In a sense every sincere Christian is evangelical because the word means to live and...

Here are suggestions for improving a Catholic’s appreciation for the real presence of Christ in...

Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846) opposed gas street lamps and railroad engines. Although these examples are...

International Workers Day (May Day), the counterpart to our September Labor Day, was inspired by...

A major cause of our loneliness epidemic is the 50-year deterioration of intermediate-sized groups—ethnic clubs,...

I’m against social distancing. I’m into physical distancing instead. There is already too much social...

The Working Catholic by Bill Droel Modern Catholic social doctrine dates from May 1891 with...

The Working Catholic: Labor Day Part IIby Bill Droel Covid-19 brings us an opportunity to...

The Working Catholic: Shrine, Statue and Boat by Bill Droel Three Catholic women, champions of...

The Working Catholic: After Covid by Bill Droel The parish’s live-stream Mass should continue. In...

The Working Catholic: Truth by Bill Droel God has a plan and God plants purposefulness...

Lent is the time for particular attention to sinfulness. Yet this year as in years...

  Elite liberalism is the default philosophy in our society. (This modified liberalism is not...

The Working Catholic: Populism by Bill Droel The term populism is wrongly applied to authoritarians...

  Can fashion design be a Christian vocation? No, because isn’t it true that the...

The young adult activists who inspired the world this past summer now have the challenge...

Small is beautiful. No bigger than necessary. Act local; think global. Deborah Fallows and James...