Must Reads - November 17, 2010 


Margaret O'Brien Steinfels examines the ugly influence of money on our political system:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/cash-cowed

 

John Dear, S.J. reflects on a visit to Food for the Poor, and what the poor taught him:
http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/dont-forget-food-poor

 

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly considers how former President Bush's reticence on torture is not the whole story:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=10875

 

Catholic San Francisco, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, publishes its worries about social justice issues in the upcoming Congress:
http://www.catholic-sf.org/news_select.php?newsid=1&id=57827

 

David Reiff charges the US has abandoned Haiti:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/78986/why-we-abandoned-haiti-abandon-it-we-have

 

John DiIullio reviews the new book American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us:
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12562

 

Michael Sean Winters exposes the McCarthyite tactics employed against the Catholic Campaign for Human Development:
http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/mccarthyite-tactics-against-cchd