[This post by Jeremy Zipple, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post] I’ll cut straight to the chase: The PBS/Frontline documentary Two American Families is bleak, so bleak it may make you lose all hope in the long-term viability of the American middle class. It is also stunningly thought provoking, and if I were… Read More The Narrow Path to the Middle Class, on “Two American Families”
As I drove home last night, slowly moving down the Van Wyck Highway Service Road, I watched as an older homeless man weaved through traffic begging for help. I pulled out what cash I had accessible but he moved over to the next lane – I did not know how to signal safely for him… Read More Don’t Fall for Misdirection: It’s about Homelessness, Inequality, Unemployment and Poverty not the Debt
Bishop Robert McElroy, the auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, has a new article in America that Michael Sean Winters of NCR has labeled a “game changer” for explicitly and authoritatively challenging “the use, better to say misuse, of Catholic moral theology in discussions of public policy.” As MSW notes, some excellent theologians have addressed these distortions… Read More Church for the Poor: 10 Key Points in Bishop McElroy’s Outstanding Article
Check out these recent articles from around the web: A ‘Francis imprint’ on US bishops may take time by John Allen: “Arguably, nothing a pope does is more decisive in shaping Catholic culture than appointing bishops, and that’s especially true for one who wants change. Francis has sketched a beguiling vision of a more merciful… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Poor Get Poorer by Michael O’Loughlin: “Now I don’t call attention to this extraordinary wealth to begrudge those who have money. Having spent a few years working in the nonprofit sector, I see firsthand the immense good that wealthy individuals create with their financial resources.… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Rural poverty calls us to remember who feeds us by Bishop Paul D. Etienne, USCCB Blog: “In the overall effort to combat the scandal of poverty, rural communities need to be remembered. Not only should we help them meet their basic needs through charity and a… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Can savage capitalism be humanized? Taking up the challenge of Pope Francis by Michael Stafford, ABC Religion and Ethics: “If we do not make the moral and ethical case against savage capitalism, no one will. If we do not put forward an alternative vision of an… Read More Around the Web
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