The church has a beautiful social teaching on labor and work issues. But too often, when the church is the employer, that teaching is not followed — and when it isn't, the church's witness is compromised.
Young Voices: Three encounters at my motherhouse — involving significant differences of opinion — gave me pause and had me reflecting on progressive and inclusive authenticity.
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.
Decolonizing Faith and Society: We have not moved beyond colonial ways of thinking and being. Are most Americans today working to live or living to work?
Echoing what Pope Francis said during a Mass in May, the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said, "The struggle of working people, of the poor" is not first a "social or political question. No! It is the Gospel, pure and simple."
Distinctly Catholic: Can we be sure that the American people, if they feel that their pockets are fuller than before and their prospects more rosy, will not look the other way while President Donald Trump deports people and ignores the environment?