Some Facts About Child Poverty
Among the richest nations of the world, the United States has one of the worst child poverty rates. A 2014 UNICEF report ranks us 36th among the 41 countries studied. Some reports say as...
Monthly Archive: August 2015
Living in Poverty
There’s a lot written about poverty and the people who live in it — nearly all of it written by those on the outside looking in. That’s why I found it refreshing to come...
What the Catholic Worker Believes
Peter Maurin was a co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. He came from French peasant stock to become an intellectual kindred spirit to Dorothy Day, who called him a modern-day Saint Francis. His...
Say “Yes” to Giving
Catholic social teaching tells us that what we have in this life is not ours alone, but is entrusted to us for the good of all. Basically, to withhold something from someone who has...
A Beginning
Reprinted from the first issue of the original Catholic Worker newspaper. ___________ For those who are sitting on park benches in the warm spring sunlight. For those who are huddling in shelters trying to...
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