From 2013: On several occasions, Francis has talked about tackling unemployment and signaled out the high unemployment of youth as one of the two most salient issues facing the world at present. He also attacked what he called unjust salaries.
In parishes across the country this weekend the collection plate will be passed to support the U S bishops rsquo domestic anti-poverty initiative mdash the Catholic Campaign for Human Development At a time when 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty and extreme income inequality is growing a contribu
I have never met Segundo Montes I have also never met Ignacio Ellacuria or Amando Lopez I have not met Ignacio Martin-Baro Juan Ramon Moreno Joaquin Lopez y Lopez nor Elba Ramos or her daughter Celina The truth is that they all died five years before I was even born These eight individuals li
Cape Cod Mass -- Like everyone else old enough to remember I am marking this week the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy The other day I stopped by the J F K Memorial in Hyannis see picture so near to where the Kennedys even now still have their summer home and spent so
It begins with the woodwinds soft low and warm Next the violins enter at first intermittently and then the brass burst forth with the chorus shortly thereafter Forcing the listener to run the gamut of emotions from fear to joy horror to relief and with overwhelming force and great empowerme