What are you looking for in our presidential candidates/ president this election year? Here are some responses from our Thomas Merton Center members and friends. We hope to include more responses in […]
The Wonders of “Crapitalism”!!!
Trump’s Assault on Public Service
By Charles McCollester President Trump’s government shutdown was a cheap, tawdry, fear-mongering piece of blackmail designed to assert his will over Congress and possibly impose a shameful border wall, even if it […]
Visionary Imagination: The Green New Deal
By Wanda Guthrie For quite a few years I have been following the work of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. The objective of the Forum established by Mary Evelyn Tucker […]
The De-evolution of Pro-Life Policy
By Cheryl Bauer As a middle-school student in the mid-90’s, I was introduced to the pro-life movement by a Catholic friend. She enlightened me to the grisly process of partial-birth abortion, and […]
Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade and Trump Trade
By Michael Drohan The first major trade agreement of recent decades was between Mexico, the US and Canada in 1993, coming into effect on January 1,1994. It is called the North American […]
Work Requirements Don’t Work
By Ann Sanders From the White House to the halls of Congress, to Harrisburg and state capitals across the country, many elected officials are promoting work requirements as a way to “move […]
SW PA Bread Team Lobbies Congressional Members For Improvement In The Domestic and International Food Programs
BY JOYCE ROTHERMEL Those who gathered for the annual SW PA Bread Team Workshop on April 15 heard from presenters Margaret Tran, regional organizer for Bread for the World, and Dennis McManus, […]
Trading Principles For Power
BY CHERYL BAUER The election of Donald Trump in 2016 is not only evidence of the power held by selfidentified white, evangelical Christian voters, but of an enormous shift in principle of […]
And The Winner Is…
BY BETTE MCDEVITT Sorry, folks, it’s not you. It’s Lockheed. In the recent 1.3 trillion dollar budget, the defense contractors will share a large hunk of our tax money; $700 billion dollars, […]
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