No good billionaires
As Tax Day approaches, we look at the hazards of extreme wealth disparity. In his State of the Union address this year, President Biden called for the passage of the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act...
17 Apr 202347min
How can we transform our politics?
Holy Week is a time for pondering the deepest mysteries of the Christian faith, especially how in the betrayal, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the mission of the Son of God on earth was ...
3 Apr 202353min
Why do we call it care?
The 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act—March 23—is a time to reflect on the significant legacy of Catholic sisters in helping people in the United States get access to quality, affordable hea...
20 Mar 202346min
Ten years of an eco-pope
March 13 is the 10th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis. In this episode we explore the threads of the pope's identity—the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, the first pope nam...
6 Mar 20231h 10min
Just presidents
Do Presidents' Day and Ash Wednesday have any connection beyond their close proximity on the calendar this year? It turns out that reflecting on the history of the United States through the lens of t...
20 Feb 202351min
The deep need for reparatory justice
What does it mean to respond seriously to great harm? What if that harm stretches over centuries, from slavery and the Jim Crow era down to the persistent racist injustices and iniquities of the prese...
6 Feb 202340min
Announcing Just Politics Season 2
People of faith believe God is at work in the world around us. But this can be hard to see, given the state of politics in the United States, especially when religious leaders often seem fixated on al...
27 Jan 20232min
Let's be better neighbors in 2023
Advent challenges us to better prepare ourselves for the arrival of Jesus in our world. And this call to transformation resonates especially with the issue of immigration in the United States. Immigra...
12 Des 202258min
