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October 2018

October 30, 2018
Violent language keeps company with violent behavior. The former does not usually cause the latter...
October 24, 2018
John McKnight directs Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He objects to the standard...

August 2018

August 28, 2018
The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892 is among the most significant chapters in U.S. labor...
August 13, 2018
The primary symbol of our country is our flag, the “stars and stripes.” Closely connected...
August 08, 2018
There is a serious downside to use of computers and mobile devices, according to recent...

July 2018

July 18, 2018
Beginning in this century’s early days many towns and mid-sized cities explored strategies for post-industrial...
July 13, 2018
Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati was the setting for a recent conference about young...
July 03, 2018
Most grammar school and high school students encounter Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) in one or another...

June 2018

June 28, 2018
It was in post-World War II Poland that a positive turn occurred in the theology...
June 06, 2018
Go to the barbershop and get a hold of The Atlantic (June/18). Its cover features...

May 2018

May 14, 2018
Let’s say there is a society in which everyone honors contracts—formal ones and implied promises....
May 01, 2018
When the diagnosis is cancer, our singular focus is properly on treatment—surgery, radiation, chemo, immunotherapy,...

April 2018

April 19, 2018
Can electoral politics be a vocation; a person’s response to God’s call? By one opinion,...

March 2018

March 21, 2018
The pastoral teaching of Catholic bishops in our country has “consistently supported the right of...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
St. Frances Cabrini, MSC (1850-1917), the first U.S. citizen to be canonized, is the patron...
February 19, 2018
Subsidiarity is a Catholic social principle that celebrates the multiplicity of small institutions that buffer...

January 2018

January 20, 2018
  In response to recent disclosures of predatory behavior in several workplaces, human resource departments...
January 04, 2018
Will the buds of social improvement flower? There are promising signs. People are speaking out...

December 2017

December 06, 2017
Every preacher has a sermon ready for this weekend or next in a folder labeled...

November 2017

November 19, 2017
Contemporaries Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were concerned about the...
November 13, 2017
The grocery store was more congested than usual this morning because Christmas has taken over...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
Larry Keogh, a fellow teacher at our community college, began each semester by telling his...
October 24, 2017
Lousy writing is intentional, insists George Orwell (1903-1950). Shoddy writers may not be aware of...
October 03, 2017
Back in March 2017 I picked the Dodgers in our usually friendly betting pool. I...

September 2017

September 13, 2017
Death is the penalty we pay for Eve and Adam’s disobedience. How do we know?...

August 2017

August 29, 2017
I just returned from St. Paul. In the early 1970s, as part of the War...

July 2017

July 28, 2017
  Rev. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), one of our country’s foremost leaders in race relations,...
July 18, 2017
Back in 1992 New Jersey raised its minimum wage. Social scientists David Card and Alan...
July 01, 2017
I moved into Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood in the late 1970s and within seven years...

June 2017

June 21, 2017
An imprecise distinction can be made between the working poor and the poor; between episodic...
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