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December 2016

December 29, 2016

Family Stability, Part Two

By Bill Droel and John Erb In a series of essays on this blog site...

December 20, 2016

Income Gaps, Part One

by Bill Droel and John Erb For some time now, we have thought about the...

December 16, 2016

Find the Pope; Find Yourself

A pilgrim goes to a place that contains some spiritual sentiment—like Rome, Mecca or Bethlehem....

December 01, 2016

Silence

Martin Scorsese was vaccinated with “a Catholic imagination,” writes Fr. Andrew Greeley (1928-2013). For Scorsese...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Yankee, Go Home

Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, OP of Peru is rightly receiving awards these days for his role...

November 04, 2016

Remnant Theory

Some time ago a business group sponsored a Saturday clean-up in my neighborhood. Teenagers were...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

Division within the Church

The internal battles are the hardest. The particulars of an internal dispute quickly seem inconsequential...

October 13, 2016

Holy Capitalist

A small number of Catholics more or less believes that capitalism is evil. On the...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

Heavenly Institutions

Once upon a time there was an elderly monk “who wove a basket one day;...

September 21, 2016

A Nostalgic Society

After about 35 years of weekly gatherings, the members of my spiritual support group are...

September 13, 2016

Broken Ladders

Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, grew up in a small Texas town....

September 03, 2016

The Working Catholic: 501-C-3 Rule

According to an IRS rule, churches (and other non-profits) “are absolutely prohibited from directly or...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

Stealing Donuts

“It is not a sin to steal food if you are starving.” That is what...

August 15, 2016

Jealous Crabs

All ethnic groups experience a tension between the old world and the new world. First...

August 07, 2016

Baseball History

Chicago White Sox hurler Chris Sale forgot that he is a member of a powerful...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

The Working Catholic: Idolatry

David Cloutier teaches Catholic ethics at Mt. St. Mary’s University in Maryland. The students give...

July 15, 2016

The Undeserving Poor?

Too many people seem too sure about the causes and the cure for poverty. I...

July 11, 2016

The Working Catholic: Fashion Statement

Some philosophical and religious traditions look askance at fashion. Eastern religions, for example, focus on...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Urban Decline?

It wasn’t so traumatic here when in the 1980s Los Angeles overtook Chicago, until then...

June 04, 2016

125 Years

As anniversaries go, the 125th of modern Catholic social thought is a non-starter except perhaps...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Social Christianity

A religion-labor coalition appeared during the first decade of the 20th century, reversing the prior...

May 01, 2016

Grateful Employer

There is the world of meritocracy and the world of grace. There is the world...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Parishes, Part III

Outreach and mission must set a parish’s goals, not inherited routines or personality quirks of...

April 19, 2016

Domestic Workers

Domestic workers—nannies and eldercare assistants--are a major part of the growing personal service job sector....

April 10, 2016

Rules in Church

Chaos reigns in high school classrooms and hallways when rules are too vague or are...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Words Matter

In 1984 Msgr. Jack Egan (1916-2001), who at that time was director of Human Relations...

March 09, 2016

Parishes, Part II

The formula for parish decline, indeed for the decline of any enterprise, is to maximize...

March 04, 2016

Realistic Voting

The term intrinsic evil is appropriate in a philosophy or theology classroom where students are...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Full of Grace

The phrase Godless world is popular with some presidential candidates. In recent months it has...

February 18, 2016

New-Style Parishes

The late 1800s and early 1900s were boom years for U.S. Catholicism. Immigrants from Ireland,...