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- Dec 14, 2019
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Pope says that peace comes in a shade of green, or not at all
- Dec 12, 2019
In an annual message for the World Day of Peace, which is celebrated on Jan. 1, the pope implied that violence toward humanity and violence toward the planet go hand in hand.
Advocates for poor expect new SNAP rule will boost hunger nationwide
- Dec 7, 2019
Catholic advocates for poor people decried a new federal rule that tightens work requirements which determine eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and is expected to force hundreds of thousands to lose food stamps.
Behind a gentle Salvadoran bishop, a legacy in defense of the poor
- Dec 6, 2019
At 51, Bishop Oswaldo Escobar Aguilar is the youngest prelate of El Salvador, and one notably influenced by his country’s Catholic martyrs.
Five Gulf South states rank at bottom of ‘social justice’ index
- Nov 26, 2019
For the third consecutive year, states in the Gulf South of the U.S. ranked near the bottom of a 2018 “social justice” index that measures poverty, racial disparity and immigrant exclusion, according to the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans.
Pope calls money spent on nukes ‘an affront crying out to heaven’
- Nov 24, 2019
“The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit the integral development of peoples and to protect the natural environment,” Pope Francis said Sunday.
Church is key to battling poverty in paradise
- Nov 23, 2019
What has been dubbed by many as America’s paradise is not just home to plutocrats, but there’s a surprising degree of poverty and, as ever, the Catholic Church long has been on the front lines of responding to it.
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