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February 2016

February 08, 2016

Gratitude Deficiency

The coins on our counter and in our pockets carry the slogan “Out of Many,...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

Faith and Society

The phrase new evangelization has entered the Catholic lexicon within the past dozen years or...

January 04, 2016

There’s An App For That

Michael Hsu, writing in The Wall St. Journal (1/3/16), rates meditation technologies. He examines those...

December 2015

December 12, 2015

Who Is Next

There has always been a strain of anti-Catholicism in our country. For example, Catholics were...

December 04, 2015

Advent Sermons

It is impossible this month to worship in a Christian church and avoid cliché-ridden sermons...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Thanksgiving

In the summer of 2014 Oracle, Arizona reflected back to us two defining cultural images....

November 11, 2015

Esau and Jacob

Political scientist Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015), who died in October, fought against a dominant approach in...

November 06, 2015

First U.S. Saint

She is the first U.S. citizen to be an official saint. But it almost didn’t...

November 01, 2015

Gifts that keep moving

This is the season for gratitude. First up is our national day of Thanksgiving on...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

No Challenge Flags

Our Bears lost because of a disputed play. Actually, our Bears lose for several reasons....

October 26, 2015

NRA Is a Front

According to a popular opinion, the National Rifle Association is the primary obstacle to gun...

October 04, 2015

Goodbye Trump

Don Trump is out. Don Quixote is in. Worldly success is out. Regard for others...

October 01, 2015

A relevant saint?

October is a great month for saints: St. Therese Lisieux (the Little Flower), St. Boniface,...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

World Series

Rev. Martin Luther King (1929-1968) writes from jail in Summer 1963 to his fellow ministers....

September 09, 2015

Papal Visit, Part II

Where does Pope Francis get his ideas on the economy? The same place as every...

September 06, 2015

Labor Day history

Labor Day began in 1882 when machinist Matthew Maguire (1855-1917) and carpenter Peter Maguire (1852-1906)...

September 04, 2015

Pope’s Visit

Is the pope a socialist? During this month’s papal visit to our country a few...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

After Protest

This column is hardy ready to endorse Hillary in 16. But Clinton is correct in...

August 13, 2015

Rules Part II

Chris Matthews supplies several rules for public life in Hardball: How Politics Is Played (Free...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

No Rules

Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) could not tell less experienced organizers more loudly or more frequently: There...

July 20, 2015

Free Choice?

Rebecca Friedrichs doesn’t want to pay her union dues. And indeed, because our culture is...

July 07, 2015

Action First

Young adults do not so much need a meaning in life as an experience of...

July 02, 2015

Hometown Brag

Political commentators derisively call it The Chicago Way. They refer to our machine-style politics. Its...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Doctors’ Vocation Crisis

Doctor: We have a correct diagnosis of your problem. We don’t need a CT scan,...

June 08, 2015

The Working Catholic: Family Structure

The Vatican-sponsored World Synod on the Family continues this fall and a companion Family Congress...

June 02, 2015

The Working Catholic: Stockyards

Your Working Catholic blogger frequently drives through Chicago’s abandoned stockyards on the way to the...

May 2015

May 09, 2015

Food Processing

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is a standard on high school summer reading lists;...

May 06, 2015

Student Jobs

College students who this summer land an internship, experience a mission trip, do academic research...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

A Race Man

The Working Catholic: by Bill Droel It was cold in the parking lot after the...

April 15, 2015

Young Adults and Social Change

There is resurgence among U.S. Catholic young adults in the social mission of their faith....

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