April 28, 2017 By Bette McDevitt Some readers may know members of the two Bruderhof communities located in Fayette County near Ohiopyle. In the past, Bruderhof members have participated in, and volunteered […]
Living Simply
Working for a Future We Believe In
May 15, 2017 By Jim McCarville On April 30 over 90 progressive Christians with resource people gathered in Sullivan Hall of St. Mary of the Mount parish to discuss and discern their […]
Two Merton Center Members Recognized with Jefferson Awards
May 19, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel This year two of our Merton Center members received local Jefferson Awards for their important work in our community: Theresa Orlando and Fr. Regis Ryan. The […]
Redwood’s Struggle Against Systemic Oppression
May 20, 2017 By Carl Redwood, with Neil Cosgrove Carl Redwood is the 2017 recipient of the Merton Center’s NewPerson award, which he will receive at an event scheduled for Monday, June […]
Duquesne Administration Continues to Defy NLRB and Catholic Social Teaching
May 5, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has, once again, ruled against the Duquesne University administration, telling it to cease nearly five years of stonewalling and begin […]
Bad Budgets = Bad Results
This is a set of articles in which leaders of local service organizations describe the possible impacts of proposed federal budget cuts on the services they provide and the issues that concern […]
Food Security Safety Net in Jeopardy; You Can Help
May 5, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel Global efforts, including that of the United States, have made great progress toward ending hunger and poverty over the last three decades. Around the world […]
Human Rights Are Unconditional
May 4, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman In addition to being a racist system that intentionally targets people of color through “broken-windows policing”, stop-and-frisk policies, and racial profiling, the prison industrial complex is […]
Incentivizing Racism: U.S. Prison-Industrial Complex
May 4, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza Before the 2017 Academy Awards, I watched a number of the documentaries that had been nominated for my favorite category, Best Documentary. One of those films, […]
CULTURE WATCH: Musing on Intersectionality, Politics and Culture
May 4, 2017 By Jo Tavener Kimberlé Crenshaw is professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School; she is also a pioneer in critical race theory. In her 2016 TED Talk, […]
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