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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) devoted a chapter to “Associations in Civil Life” in his percipient...

Economic indicators ebb and flow, though not with high predictability. In the years after World...

  There are prophets of peace and builders of peace. There are protesters and institutional...

Is there a sustaining philosophy for idealistic young adults? Is there a creative path that...

There are new rules for electing players to the All Star teams. As in a...

Secular culture and the liturgical calendar cooperate to make Christmas an extended feast. It begins...

Our Chicago White Sox are “in rebuild mode,” according to their front office. Progress is...

The fire occurred in March 1911. Someone failed to fully extinguish a cigarette in New...

  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,...