The U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement gives “somber” realities imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Profit over safety, especially in pandemic, ‘unjust,’ says Labor Day statement
Catholic economists urge end to stay-at-home orders in COVID-19 response
The underlying role of economists during the pandemic is to apply economics to epidemiology and the implications for the economy as well as for other aspects of life.
Social justice lobby’s roundtable tour reveals rural needs
The report “Raising Rural Voices: Listening to the Hopes and Hardships of Rural Communities” identifies a series of difficult economic, communication and social challenges facing rural communities.
‘Greater horizons’: Tending to each other and our common home
The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge.
Bishops: Congress must consider budget’s moral, human dimensions
The chairmen of six U.S. bishops’ policy committees March 3 told members of the House and Senate that every decision they will make on the federal budget “should be assessed by whether it protects or threatens human life and dignity.”
People still await government housing help one year after Nepal quake
KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNS) — A year after an earthquake toppled them to the ground, the stones that once formed Sarita Majhi’s simple house are stacked neatly […]