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February 2018

February 19, 2018

Union Reform

Subsidiarity is a Catholic social principle that celebrates the multiplicity of small institutions that buffer...

January 2018

January 20, 2018

Workplace Behavior

In response to recent disclosures of predatory behavior in several workplaces, human resource departments...

January 04, 2018

Genuine Change

Will the buds of social improvement flower? There are promising signs. People are speaking out...

December 2017

December 06, 2017

Advent, Part III

Every preacher has a sermon ready for this weekend or next in a folder labeled...

November 2017

November 19, 2017

Advent, Part II

Contemporaries Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were concerned about the...

November 13, 2017

Christmas So Soon?

The grocery store was more congested than usual this morning because Christmas has taken over...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Health Care

Larry Keogh, a fellow teacher at our community college, began each semester by telling his...

October 24, 2017

Shop Talk

Lousy writing is intentional, insists George Orwell (1903-1950). Shoddy writers may not be aware of...

October 03, 2017

World Series

Back in March 2017 I picked the Dodgers in our usually friendly betting pool. I...

September 2017

September 13, 2017

Theology of Work

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

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Housing, Part 3

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

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Garbage Justice

Rev. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), one of our country’s foremost leaders in race relations,...

July 18, 2017

Wages, Part II

Back in 1992 New Jersey raised its minimum wage. Social scientists David Card and Alan...

July 01, 2017

Rehabbing Foreclosed Houses

I moved into Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood in the late 1970s and within seven years...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

Eviction

An imprecise distinction can be made between the working poor and the poor; between episodic...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Consistent Solidarity

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin (1928-1996) of Chicago urged his fellow Catholics to adopt a consistent ethic...

May 19, 2017

Wages

The living wage movement improves family life for targeted workers but has little spillover effect...

May 08, 2017

The Common Good

“Your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Secular City?

For the past 300 years or more the secularism thesis has said that science, individual...

April 04, 2017

Resentment

Following each presidential election, a cottage industry of analysis appears—maps, tables, articles and books. This...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Benign Neglect

Nearly every business leader agrees with the idea of corporate responsibility, said Stefano Zamagni at...

March 21, 2017

Lent Reading

St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday this year. Thus, several Illinois bishops (though not...

March 11, 2017

Urban Holiness

Children in a generally peaceful home can acquire virtue more readily than those in a...

March 04, 2017

Chicago Neighbors

Nearly 250 people, including a fair number of high school students, filled St. Barnabas church...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

Pure Faith

Fr. Isaac Hecker, CSP (1819-1888) founded the Paulist Fathers, the first United States-based religious order....

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Private and Public

The best-selling Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (Harper Collins, 2016) is about fierce loyalty within...

January 18, 2017

Stop Trafficking

The office of our county sheriff has an animal welfare unit. It received a tip...

January 14, 2017

Science

Pope Francis recently uttered what should be regarded as one more ho-hum statement: “Never before...

January 10, 2017

Income Chart

by Bill Droel and John Erb In a series for this blog we say that...

January 04, 2017

Family Stability, Part III

by Bill Droel and John Erb In this and previous installments on this blog site...