Commentary: In 2020, our zeal to consume took a virtual turn. But do we question who made our sweater, or the coffee we're drinking, and which workers toiled to source the raw materials required to produce these goods?
Commentary: Sen. Marco Rubio is making a telling pivot by invoking Catholic social teaching, but his points look much like the nationalist populism advocated today by the U.S. president and others.
NCR Connections: Through five years of reporting, NCR makes the case that something unusual has developed in the church in the U.S., influencing the conversation on Catholic social teaching and economics.
We say: The Catholic Church in the U.S. is for sale. Money provides individuals and groups entrée to the highest levels of church leadership and affords others an inordinately large say in church affairs.
NCR interview: Catholic entrepreneur discusses Burke, Viganò and Nienstedt; prospects for the church's new laws on sex abuse; and how he believes the free market complements Catholic teaching.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Accountable Capitalism Act; unions organizing for the common good; rich folks' legal and illegal ways to game the system.
New York - Cardinal Joseph Tobin and economist Jeffrey Sachs discussed social teaching and the twin global crises of inequality and climate change at a Sept. 5 Fordham seminar.
NCR Today: The professions of shock that a person basking in money, publicity and acclaim would end it all are likely to reflect a jarring blow to the free enterprise armor.
Two Vatican offices have taken the global financial system to task, decrying in a new document the way markets primarily serve the world's wealthiest minority and stress profit to an extent that creates "a profoundly amoral culture."
