Two institutions that have been in the hot seat since the start of the recession are health care and education. Both have out-of-control costs, with comparatively very little to show for those costs, making them targets of...
Read MoreLast week, in my post American Scandal & Disgrace: the Criminalization of Poverty, I highlighted the ways our social structures treat poverty itself as a crime. Within our public discourse and our unspoken social mores,...
Read More“To Choose Is To Lose,” so say the authors of a new study on decision-making that is the subject of a recent story in The New York Times Magazine. The researchers found that when people had to make a lot of choices, they...
Read MoreThis coming Monday, as a nation, we will celebrate Labor Day. Often, Labor day is simply seen as marking the “end of summer.” Yet, every year, the USCCB Committee of Domestic Justice and Human Development releases...
Read MoreTwenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 127 Ezekiel 33:7-9 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 Today’s readings from Ezekiel, Romans, and Matthew speak to our obligations to one another as a...
Read MoreJohn Berkman and I are in the midst of an exchange designed to draw attention to the issue of cruelty to non-human animals–particularly from the perspective of Christianity and Catholic Moral Theology. Check back in the...
Read MoreIn an invited post for the blog of the exciting new Center for FaithJustice, I once again tried to show how the liberal/conservative binary just doesn’t work even in the political arena from which it came, much less in a...
Read MoreEarlier this week, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief justice Stuart J. Rabner, wrote in 134-page unanimous court decision that the test for reliability of eyewitness testimony should be revised. The Court acknowledged a...
Read MoreNo, this is not a post for fans of the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Lions, Toronto Maple Leafs, or other sad sack teams who live in cold mid-western climates. It is in response to the recent deaths of a...
Read MoreThe dark side of the American Dream narrative is a propensity to blame the poor for their poverty. It is the illusion and delusion that the United States of America is a meritocracy where everyone is treated fairly and anyone...
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