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April 2020

April 28, 2020
Some years ago I was part of a lobby group to change the feast of...
April 20, 2020
In the latter half of the 1960s many U.S. cities experienced race riots. Plus, the...
April 03, 2020
In philosophy it is called utilitarianism. In business it is called cost-benefit-analysis. In family life...

March 2020

March 09, 2020
Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth St., New York, NY 10029) just...

February 2020

February 26, 2020
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), Max Weber (1864-1920) and other founders of the discipline of sociology were...
February 22, 2020
“Consuming and participating in politics by obsessive news-following [and] by arguing and debating” is not...

January 2020

January 20, 2020
A woman in a friendly poker game is dealt a lousy hand. Nonetheless, she leans...

December 2019

December 01, 2019
Clothes were once made in the U.S. Yes, labor abuses occurred in our domestic production--in...

November 2019

November 25, 2019
Will your shopping for gifts this holy season include buying apparel? Be warned: It will...
November 11, 2019
Lobbying the alderman for a stop sign at the end of the block is a...

October 2019

October 23, 2019
The Working Catholic: Strikes by Bill Droel Strikes are in the news: auto workers, janitors,...

September 2019

September 10, 2019
Good intentions are not enough. Indeed, good intentions can be harmful. Tarence Ray provides a...

August 2019

August 30, 2019
  In April 1994 CBS and N.Y. Times sponsored a survey on U.S. religious beliefs....

July 2019

July 22, 2019
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) devoted a chapter to “Associations in Civil Life” in his percipient...
July 10, 2019
Economic indicators ebb and flow, though not with high predictability. In the years after World...

June 2019

June 19, 2019
  There are prophets of peace and builders of peace. There are protesters and institutional...
June 13, 2019
Is there a sustaining philosophy for idealistic young adults? Is there a creative path that...

May 2019

May 30, 2019
There are new rules for electing players to the All Star teams. As in a...
May 16, 2019
Secular culture and the liturgical calendar cooperate to make Christmas an extended feast. It begins...
May 14, 2019
Our Chicago White Sox are “in rebuild mode,” according to their front office. Progress is...

April 2019

April 02, 2019
The fire occurred in March 1911. Someone failed to fully extinguish a cigarette in New...

March 2019

March 16, 2019
  Christianity highlights certain dogmas during Lent. These dogmas relate to Jesus’ suffering, death and...
March 05, 2019
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (www.kul.pl) just published The Catholic Social Ethic...

February 2019

February 21, 2019
Name any social policy and there is sure to be a religious leader who has...

January 2019

January 11, 2019
This month’s celebration of Rev. Martin L. King (1929-1968) is of course about more than...
January 05, 2019
As early as the mid-1800s, novelists, artists, philosophers, essayists and prophets questioned the great promise...
January 02, 2019
It says “legal tender for all debts private and public.” But cash is out. Indeed,...

December 2018

December 11, 2018
“Even if it is not factual, it is too good a story not to be...

November 2018

November 28, 2018
Advice columns are exercises in deconstruction. Dear Abby and Ask Amy must intuit or impose...
November 05, 2018
Not so long ago strikes were deemed counterproductive, says Commonweal magazine (3/26/18). That was until...
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