Is it possible for people to improve their lives through hard work, or is the system rigged against you? Your answer – and your results – may depend on your faith. On EWTN, Carl Cannon of

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As Republicans unveil plans for compulsory paid family leave, they would be well instructed to see how such policies have hurt women’s employment prospects. In Europe, where paid leave is

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Rethinking Poverty: Income, Assets, and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition. James P. Bailey. University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 192 pages. James P. Bailey is Associate Professor of

March 25 is the feast of the Annunciation, exactly nine months before Christmas Day, and marks the moment that Jesus Christ was conceived “of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became