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Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism.
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A new government database tracking people's pregnancies in Poland is sparking fears that medical data will be used to prosecute women who obtain abortion care in other countries or get abortion pills in the mail, or target women who have miscarriages
Romance novels are misunderstood. So is the working class.
Beneficiaries of a program that resettled young Cubans decades ago were outraged after the Miami archbishop compared them to today’s unaccompanied minors.
Jordan Klepper Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters. How the US Created a Disaster in Afghanistan. Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt Speaks Out. Six Questions About Booster Shots.
In May 1985, Jason Berry, a Catholic journalist in Louisiana, wrote his first piece on child sexual abuse in the church for the National Catholic Reporter and the Times of Acadiana. So why was the "Watergate of the Catholic Church" ignored?
A thousand kinds of crazy in a convulsing world
'Fratelli Tutti' challenges unfair wealth distribution and market capitalism. He calls for a world based on solidarity, including just and human treatment for migrants.
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