Bishops Stephen Blaire and Howard Hubbard write to the House Agriculture Committee urging them to avoid cuts in food programs that help the poor both at home and abroad:
http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/Joint_Letter_on_2012_AG_Appropriations_May_2011.pdf
Zaid Jilani, writing at the Center for American Progress, details the many good things our country could afford if we had never enacted the Bush tax cuts:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/07/237560/10-years-bush-tax-cuts/
Professor Stephen Schneck, CACG's policy director, reclaims subsidiarity from the distortions who have asked that it justifies the Ryan/Republican budget in a post at the website of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies:
http://ipr.cua.edu/blogs/post.cfm/what-is-subsidiarity
In America magazine, Father James Martin, S.J., calls for the speedy beatification of martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero:
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12902
At Commonweal, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels examines the moral ambiguity of the armed intervention in Libya:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/hazardous-means
At NCR's "Eco-Catholic," Sharon Abercrombie writes about three Sisters of
Mercy who participated in a new educational program designed to help teachers educate their students on the need to change the way our culture relates to the environment:
http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/awakening-dreamer-changing-dream
Sara Angle, of the Catholic News Service, on one's man's 8,000 mile trek to show his solidarity with the poor:
http://ncronline.org/news/justice/kansas-man-75-walks-8000-miles-solidarity-poor
