Social Justice

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, urged U.S. Catholics to support the “urgent work” of the U.S. church’s domestic anti-poverty program by giving to the upcoming CCHD national collection.

The United Auto Workers labor strike against the “Big Three” car producers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, whose 14 automotive brands include Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep — has ended with a series of contracts experts say emphasizes the importance of unions in Catholic social teaching, especially for achieving family wages through collective action.

Catholic social teaching has widely been described as “the church’s best kept secret.” A recent report indicates that may still be the case, and that efforts to spread it may be thwarted by a reduction in diocesan positions dedicated to social action.

President Joe Biden joined striking autoworkers in Michigan Sept. 26, becoming the first sitting president to join a union picket line, an unprecedented show of support to striking workers by a chief executive.

Sister Norma spoke as part of a Sept. 14 online panel co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and its Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

With coronavirus-era eviction protections expiring across the country and rent payment waivers not far behind, the already-precarious situation of many low-income Americans is about to get worse.