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  Christianity highlights certain dogmas during Lent. These dogmas relate to Jesus’ suffering, death and...

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (www.kul.pl) just published The Catholic Social Ethic...

Name any social policy and there is sure to be a religious leader who has...

This month’s celebration of Rev. Martin L. King (1929-1968) is of course about more than...

As early as the mid-1800s, novelists, artists, philosophers, essayists and prophets questioned the great promise...

It says “legal tender for all debts private and public.” But cash is out. Indeed,...

“Even if it is not factual, it is too good a story not to be...

Advice columns are exercises in deconstruction. Dear Abby and Ask Amy must intuit or impose...

Not so long ago strikes were deemed counterproductive, says Commonweal magazine (3/26/18). That was until...

Violent language keeps company with violent behavior. The former does not usually cause the latter...

John McKnight directs Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He objects to the standard...

The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892 is among the most significant chapters in U.S. labor...

The primary symbol of our country is our flag, the “stars and stripes.” Closely connected...

There is a serious downside to use of computers and mobile devices, according to recent...

Beginning in this century’s early days many towns and mid-sized cities explored strategies for post-industrial...

Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati was the setting for a recent conference about young...

Most grammar school and high school students encounter Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) in one or another...

It was in post-World War II Poland that a positive turn occurred in the theology...

Go to the barbershop and get a hold of The Atlantic (June/18). Its cover features...

Let’s say there is a society in which everyone honors contracts—formal ones and implied promises....

When the diagnosis is cancer, our singular focus is properly on treatment—surgery, radiation, chemo, immunotherapy,...

Can electoral politics be a vocation; a person’s response to God’s call? By one opinion,...

The pastoral teaching of Catholic bishops in our country has “consistently supported the right of...

St. Frances Cabrini, MSC (1850-1917), the first U.S. citizen to be canonized, is the patron...

Subsidiarity is a Catholic social principle that celebrates the multiplicity of small institutions that buffer...

  In response to recent disclosures of predatory behavior in several workplaces, human resource departments...

Will the buds of social improvement flower? There are promising signs. People are speaking out...

Every preacher has a sermon ready for this weekend or next in a folder labeled...

Contemporaries Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were concerned about the...

The grocery store was more congested than usual this morning because Christmas has taken over...