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2015-04-03T10:22:52-06:00

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Intellectual Disability

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 10:22 am By William Droel

Tim Shriver is not patronizing. He easily could be because his inspiring book, Fully Alive (Farrar, Straus, 2014), is about disabled people. He profiles several remarkable people and even suggests that the intellectually disabled can change society—not only spiritually, but even politically. I had to read a section and then put the book down for at least a couple hours; the story compels that type of reflection. Shriver keeps it real. Treveon Wimberly, Shriver tells us, cannot talk in a... Read more

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2015-03-30T08:12:12-06:00

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Vocation Culture

Last updated on: March 30, 2015 at 8:12 am By William Droel

There’s a vocation crisis among physicians. First, a crisis of numbers. Not enough young adults, particularly those from the United States, are applying to medical school and not enough of those who do apply want a general practice. Second, a crisis of meaning. Many doctors, to greater or lesser degree are disillusioned. Meagan O’Rourke, writing in The Atlantic (11/14), reviews seven recent books by or about physicians. “The very meaning and structure of care” is in crisis, she concludes. It... Read more

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2015-03-12T08:16:28-06:00

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Tips in Restaurants

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 8:16 am By William Droel

The Wall St. Journal (3/1/15) reports that restaurant spending increased by 11.3% over the past year and that “food-service employment has surged.” The income of restaurant workers has not equaled the uptick in meals served; though employers are starting to pay more—3.1% more over the past year says the Department of Labor. Owners and managers want to adequately serve customer volume, and also want to lower their costly turnover rate (as high as 80% a year in some restaurants).... Read more

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2015-03-03T11:58:22-06:00

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Working Catholic: Sentiment Part II

Last updated on: March 3, 2015 at 11:58 am By William Droel

The distinction between private life and public life is eroding to the detriment of both. Private life is spilling over into the public realm on so-called reality TV shows, all over social media and in displays of personal information in inappropriate places. From the other end, public life at work, in the voting booth and in government proceedings succumbs to private feelings of liking and not liking, rather than judgments of competence and respect. Film stars and other performers have... Read more

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2015-02-22T10:52:00-06:00

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The Working Catholic: Manufacturing

Last updated on: February 22, 2015 at 10:52 am By William Droel

It is hard to get a handle on globalization because it includes nearly instant communication, instant transfers of money, plus trade policies, including tariffs and NAFTA. It is also the IMF, currency rates, immigration policies, large-scale assembly and distribution of goods, speculative trading of complex financial instruments, outsourcing and an international drug market, plus sweatshops, changes in government regulation, changes in the protection of patents, changes in labor relations and fluxionary natural resource markets. It is the education gap and... Read more

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2015-02-13T11:45:45-06:00

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Stories Are True

Last updated on: February 13, 2015 at 11:45 am By William Droel

Mike Houlihan is a raconteur of Chicago neighborhoods and a columnist for Irish American News. One column wisely begins: “A good story never really ends. Maybe you’ve heard a few from me before, but like the story of our lives, it continues to unravel in directions we never imagined.” Another column, as found in his collection More Hooliganism Stories (Book Bullet, 2014), advises us that “this story is true, only the names have been changed, as well as the embellishment... Read more

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2015-02-08T14:22:04-06:00

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Community Colleges Part I

Last updated on: February 8, 2015 at 2:22 pm By William Droel

President Barack Obama is a champion of community colleges—not only in his recent State of the Union address, but regularly since the first days of his administration. Tom Geoghegan, a labor lawyer here in Chicago, is not convinced. College, especially community college, “is not a sure route to the middle class,” he writes in Only One Thing Can Save Us (The New Press, 2014). The context is all wrong. There are hardly enough stateside manufacturing jobs to sustain our service/knowledge... Read more

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2015-01-21T16:11:57-06:00

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Workers’ Participation

Last updated on: January 21, 2015 at 4:11 pm By William Droel

Catholicism opposes collectivist or state-controlled economic approaches. At the same time it opposes an unregulated market and rejects magical economics, as implied in metaphors like rising tide, invisible hand and trickle down. Throughout the industrial era and now in our post-industrial times, Catholicism draws upon its principles of participation and subsidiarity to advocate for an occupational order or solidarism. This concept is known in France as corporatism, in Belgium it is called delegates for personnel or in Germany it is... Read more

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2015-01-21T13:13:58-06:00

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The new suburban poverty

Last updated on: January 21, 2015 at 1:13 pm By William Droel

The very idea of a suburb in the United States has long been promoted as a safe, affordable family-friendly place; that is, as an alternative to a less-desirable, polluted, somewhat dangerous urban neighborhood, and one dense with rental units. Historically in Europe and Africa a suburb is usually the opposite. There the upwardly mobile live in the city and the working poor live in a city’s outer ring. Real estate developers marketed the U.S. notion of suburb even before the... Read more

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2015-01-14T12:30:10-06:00

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Too Much Sentiment

Last updated on: January 14, 2015 at 12:30 pm By William Droel

The Working Catholic: Too Much Sentiment, Part I By Bill Droel “A Christian worldview can exist in writing that is not necessarily Christian,” asserts Lisa Ohlen Harris in the February 2015 issue of a terrific evangelical publication, Books and Culture. Meanwhile, she continues, “our own [Christian] literature often lacks the bite and angst our worldview ought to embrace.” Harris has in mind most of the novels in the “Spiritual” or “Christian Fiction” section of many bookstores—though there are not... Read more

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