Michael Peppard has an excellent post up at dotCommonweal about recent studies of CEO pay, and specifically the ratio between CEO and median worker pay. This ratio is a favorite statistical “sign” for increasing inequality. The...
Read MoreA few weeks ago I took part in a conference at Lindenwood University devoted to “Free Markets and Localism.” Most of the other faculty participating in the event were far more sympathetic to libertarianism than are...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post by Holly Taylor Coolman, Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College and mother to three. Last week, the Huffington Post offered readers an essay similar to several publications in recent...
Read MoreSixth Sunday of Easter – May 5, 2013 Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Rev 21:10-14, 22-23; Jn 14:23-29 Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the encyclical of Pope John XXIII...
Read MorePolitics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. ...
Read MoreJust wanted to alert our readers that I have written a response to America Magazine’s new article “Just Economics” by Dr. Stacie Beck. In which I conclude: If Beck is right, then the entire project of Catholic...
Read MoreThe New Evangelization might just look like this: 7 priests on barstools at a Dave and Buster’s in Providence, Rhode Island, talking with a (sold out) crowd of 150 young adults about the faith we share. The event called...
Read MoreOn April 23 at a university public debate in Belgium entitled “Blasphemy: Offense or Freedom of Self-Expression,” four topless protesters from the FEMEN movement attacked Archbishop Andre Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels...
Read MoreI’ve been on the search for a school for my soon-to-be-school age kids in recent weeks. Kindergarten, I have come to find out (as have many parents before me), is not at all like what I did when I was five. There are no...
Read MoreActs 14:21-27 Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 Rev 21:1-5a Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 During the past year, I have become a little obsessed with Catholic “Mommy” blogs which have given me vital insight into raising my own almost-15...
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