Helping people work their way out of poverty isn't just about money. It requires addressing the beliefs and culture around money that may be keeping people stuck both financially and emotionally.Like ...
The United States remains the richest country in the world. Given that fact, we should be leading the world in helping those who are “poor,” in America and around the globe. And we have done so. That ...
Some influential commentators and political activists have begun to again argue that government should no longer provide essential social services to the needy, labeling such a practice an unnecessary ...
Faced with an empathy gap before the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are trying to forge a new image as a party that helps the poor and lifts struggling workers into the middle class. GOP leaders ...
In the first major teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV turned his attention to the poor, calling on Christians worldwide to defend those who are “lowly and powerless.” A 40-page document known as an ...
What’s the best way to help poor people: creating government programs, or building character? The place was Georgetown University &#8212 on the right end of the stage was conservative author Arthur ...
LOGAN, Ohio – Before dawn, in a cold, blustery drizzle, a line forms outside a small, squat building on an open stretch of road on the outskirts of town. “My heater quit working in my car,” Scott ...
American Catholics with leaders more focused on politics and culture wars have been comfortable ignoring church teachings on the importance of helping the poor and displaced. No more. The first ...
The words of Dilexi Te ("I Have Loved You") — the apostolic exhortation on love for the poor released by the Vatican Oct. 9 — come from the pen of two pontiffs, Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV. With his ...