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June 2019

June 19, 2019

Outside of Inside

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

June 13, 2019

Personalism

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

May 2019

May 30, 2019

Corporate Elections

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

May 16, 2019

Pentecost

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

May 14, 2019

Process Is Product

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

April 2019

April 02, 2019

Triangle Fire

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

March 2019

March 16, 2019

Atonement

Christianity highlights certain dogmas during Lent. These dogmas relate to Jesus’ suffering, death and...

March 05, 2019

Economic Ideologies

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (www.kul.pl) just published The Catholic Social Ethic...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

Stop Moralizing

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

January 2019

January 11, 2019

Justice Day

This month’s celebration of Rev. Martin L. King (1929-1968) is of course about more than...

January 05, 2019

Culture of Encounter

As early as the mid-1800s, novelists, artists, philosophers, essayists and prophets questioned the great promise...

January 02, 2019

In Praise of Cash

It says “legal tender for all debts private and public.” But cash is out. Indeed,...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

Christmas Is True

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

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Eucharist in Advent

Advice columns are exercises in deconstruction. Dear Abby and Ask Amy must intuit or impose...

November 05, 2018

Strikes

Not so long ago strikes were deemed counterproductive, says Commonweal magazine (3/26/18). That was until...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Bad Words

Violent language keeps company with violent behavior. The former does not usually cause the latter...

October 24, 2018

Misdirected Idealism

John McKnight directs Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He objects to the standard...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Media/Tech Companies, Part II

The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892 is among the most significant chapters in U.S. labor...

August 13, 2018

Our Statue

The primary symbol of our country is our flag, the “stars and stripes.” Closely connected...

August 08, 2018

Media and Lonliness, Part I

There is a serious downside to use of computers and mobile devices, according to recent...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Post-Industrial

Beginning in this century’s early days many towns and mid-sized cities explored strategies for post-industrial...

July 13, 2018

See, Judge, Act

Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati was the setting for a recent conference about young...

July 03, 2018

Forgotten Organizer

Most grammar school and high school students encounter Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) in one or another...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Theology of Work

It was in post-World War II Poland that a positive turn occurred in the theology...

June 06, 2018

Economic Class Part IV

Go to the barbershop and get a hold of The Atlantic (June/18). Its cover features...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

Fluid Culture

Let’s say there is a society in which everyone honors contracts—formal ones and implied promises....

May 01, 2018

Cancer

When the diagnosis is cancer, our singular focus is properly on treatment—surgery, radiation, chemo, immunotherapy,...

April 2018

April 19, 2018

Vocation of Politics

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

March 2018

March 21, 2018

Supreme Court

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

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Public Housing

St. Frances Cabrini, MSC (1850-1917), the first U.S. citizen to be canonized, is the patron...

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