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IN ONE BIG-CITY CHURCH there is a statue of St. Vincent Ferrer, the great Dominican preacher who died in 1419. This plaster figure holds an open book on whose pages [...]

'Socialist theories have far less chance in American than in Europe,' said the archbishop. 'In the first place, the sentiment of personal dignity and responsibility and the spirit of enterprise [...]

THE POPE'S DISAPPROVAL of the death penalty, expressed in his encyclical of March 30, 1995, is the strongest condemnation in church history of capital punishment. The penalty of death, the [...]

WITH THE WELFARE DEBATE pushed from the back to the front burner, it is now one of the major issues facing the President and Congress in 1995. It also promises [...]

It has been a rejuvenating experience to come back to Tucson, this city in the Arizona desert, and discover that a seed I had helped to plant nearly two decades [...]

Over 1.5 million Americans are locked behind the bars of our jails and prisons on any given day, and their numbers are rapidly rising. A primary reason for the dramatic [...]

A Franciscan sister who cherishes her personal vow of nonviolence asked me recently what I thought of nuns. I didn't have to think long. Nuns are the prophets of the [...]

As Congress took up sweeping legislation that would dismantle many elements of the social welfare system put in place by the federal government over the past 60 years, the U.S. [...]

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops continues to become more conservative. This does not mean it is right wing, although it has a vocal right-wing faction. Congress, meanwhile, also continues [...]

For more than a century, popes have preached to the world the wisdom of collective bargaining. But for decades, those ringing affirmations of the right of workers to organize have [...]

A camel, they say, is an animal designed by committee. Health care reform is an animal being designed by at least five congressional committees, to say nothing of the pressures [...]

As Labor Day rolls around each year in the United States, politicians, union leaders and church officials crank out a generous helping of empty, boilerplate rhetoric about the dignity of [...]