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2016-05-18T12:06:08-06:00

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Social Christianity

Last updated on: May 18, 2016 at 12:06 pm By William Droel

A religion-labor coalition appeared during the first decade of the 20th century, reversing the prior hostile suspicion that many Church leaders (upper case C) had toward unions. The change was led by the laity, not primarily by theologians, bishops and other pastors. Heath Carter, using Chicago as his case study, exhaustively combs old newspapers, letters, organizational statements and more to prove this thesis. The result is Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2015).... Read more

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2016-05-01T10:44:56-06:00

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Grateful Employer

Last updated on: May 1, 2016 at 10:44 am By William Droel

There is the world of meritocracy and the world of grace. There is the world of: I worked hard and I deserve what I have. And there is the world of: There but for the grace of God and others I could be. Once upon a time a landowner hired some day laborers for his vineyard. Going about his daily business the landowner thrice saw idle laborers in the plaza parking lot. Each time he hired them for the vineyard... Read more

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2016-04-26T13:27:05-06:00

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Parishes, Part III

Last updated on: April 26, 2016 at 1:27 pm By William Droel

Outreach and mission must set a parish’s goals, not inherited routines or personality quirks of the leaders. Outreach and mission directly inform an enlivened liturgy, especially the music and preaching. Doors are open wide to new arrivals. One Chicago parish, for example, has a sign above the church entrance: Witamy, Welcome, Bienvenidos. Some new arrivals are immigrants; others come by way of a process called gentrification. Nowadays, in contrast to the bubble years preceding 2007, gentrification is usually a slow... Read more

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2016-04-19T12:10:08-06:00

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Domestic Workers

Last updated on: April 19, 2016 at 12:10 pm By William Droel

Domestic workers—nannies and eldercare assistants–are a major part of the growing personal service job sector. There are more than 200,000 domestic workers in New York State alone. What is it like? Rachel Aviv profiles one domestic worker in The New Yorker (4/11/16). Emma is from Bukidnon Province in the Philippines. Even with some college education and a government job, Emma and husband Edmund could not support their nine children. So she comes to New York City; specifically to Woodside, Queens... Read more

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2016-04-10T10:31:34-06:00

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Rules in Church

Last updated on: April 10, 2016 at 10:31 am By William Droel

Chaos reigns in high school classrooms and hallways when rules are too vague or are unevenly applied. Students in a well-ordered school thrive with clear rules applied fairly. Teachers in a good school automatically dismiss a misbehaving student’s plea: “I didn’t know there was a rule.” Of course, the student really means: “I didn’t know I would get caught.” Moral formation occurs in high school. It is impossible, however, in a high school classroom to teach the difference between private... Read more

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2016-03-29T11:22:45-06:00

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Words Matter

Last updated on: March 29, 2016 at 11:22 am By William Droel

In 1984 Msgr. Jack Egan (1916-2001), who at that time was director of Human Relations and Ecumenism at the Archdiocese of Chicago, sent a memo about race relations to clergy and lay leaders involved with Chicago’s Northwest Neighborhood Federation and with Southwest Parish and Neighborhood Federation. Egan was reacting to A Declaration of Neighborhood Independence, issued by the two community organizations. “The language contained in this Declaration is inappropriate, irresponsible and divisive,” Egan wrote. His memo objected to the Declaration’s... Read more

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2016-03-12T21:57:16-06:00

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Parishes, Part II

Last updated on: March 12, 2016 at 9:57 pm By William Droel

The formula for parish decline, indeed for the decline of any enterprise, is to maximize the benefit for insiders rather than extend benefits to outsiders. People move away from a parish for normal reasons: a job relocation, downsizing or upscaling their residence, retirement or illness, and eventually death. Attracting new members always has to outpace the exodus. This no longer can happen by passively waiting for new arrivals to register with a parish. To continue on, parishes must grow. To... Read more

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2016-03-09T11:22:37-06:00

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Realistic Voting

Last updated on: March 9, 2016 at 11:22 am By William Droel

The term intrinsic evil is appropriate in a philosophy or theology classroom where students are presumably acquainted with some Aristotelian distinctions. Used in a presidential campaign, the term asks too much of electoral politics. Our U.S. Catholic bishops employ the term intrinsic evil a dozen times in their 2016 election guide, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship. The term’s use there is, in the opinion of “The Working Catholic,” one more example of moralizing; one more ingredient in the disenchantment and... Read more

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2016-02-29T16:12:17-06:00

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Full of Grace

Last updated on: February 29, 2016 at 4:12 pm By William Droel

The phrase Godless world is popular with some presidential candidates. In recent months it has also occasionally appeared in Catholic publications and catalogs. Catholics are mistaken to use the phrase or others like it. Catholics believe in the Incarnation and the Redemption. God, through God’s creation and through Christ’s death and resurrection, is already in our holy world. Encounter with God for a Catholic is thus normally mediated through the world. Catholics experience grace (God’s love) through family, neighbors, co-workers... Read more

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2016-02-22T13:51:22-06:00

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New-Style Parishes

Last updated on: February 22, 2016 at 1:51 pm By William Droel

The late 1800s and early 1900s were boom years for U.S. Catholicism. Immigrants from Ireland, Germany, Eastern Europe and elsewhere populated urban neighborhoods, building churches and schools. Using Chicago as an example, its Archbishop James Quigley (1854-1915) issued a 1910 decree for the construction of more churches so that no one would need to go more than one mile to worship. “A parish,” he wrote, “should be such a size that the pastor can personally know every man, woman, and... Read more

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