Beyond moral austerity: On the need for a Christian Left
By Matthew Sitman In Dissent and Commonweal Magazines, Summer 2017 Despair and defeat can drive many of us to our knees in prayer. In moments of crisis, we cry out to the heavens…
Making Affirmative Action White Again
By IRA KATZNELSON in the New York Times, 12 Aug 2017 Jeff Sessions told the Senate Judiciary Committee 20 years ago that affirmative action irritated people (he meant white people) because…
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
By DAVID LEONHARDT from The New York Times, 7 Aug 2017 Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating…
How can Catholics take this on? Only 1 in 8 Americans understand 90%+ scientists have concluded human-caused global warming is happening
Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Roser-Renouf, C., Rosenthal, S., & Cutler, M. Climate change in the American mind: May 2017. The Yale-GMU report, published yesterday, is based on a survey of 1,266…
Being rich wrecks your soul. We used to know that.
Being rich may be fun in the short term, but studies suggest it isn’t good for you. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters) By Charles Mathewes and Evan Sandsmark July 28 in the Washington Post Charles Mathewes is…
Lessons people of color have taught me that changed my life—and could change yours too
10 Examples That Prove White Privilege Exists in Every Aspect Jon Greenberg posted Jul 24, 2017 This article was originally published by and edited for YES! Magazine. If you checked out…
A forceful essay in ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ hits home
The extent and vitriol of the pushback from the highest echelons of American right-wing Catholicism only shows that the authors Spadaro and Figueroa have hit a nerve. By Anthony Annett…
Money and morals – when did usury stop being a sin?
By Alex Mayyasi on Aeon July 2017 ‘A banker and a theologian’ sounds like the start of a bad joke. But for David Miller it’s merely a job description. After…
