Monsignor Kevin Irwin is professor of liturgical studies at the Catholic University of America. He can discuss the progression of Benedict’s views on human stewardship of natural resources in his major discourses of moral teaching.

Rabbi Laurie Green is the rabbi at Congregation Bet Mishpachah, a congregation for LGBT Jews and others in Washington, D.C.

The National LGBTQ Task Force organizes and operates the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, a group of leaders from LGBTQ-welcoming faith organizations, and runs the Institute for Welcoming Resources, which works with eight major denominations. It maintains offices in Massachusetts, New York, Minneapolis, Florida and Washington, D.C. Contact Mark Daley.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C., offers a trove of welfare analysis at both state and federal levels, including a searchable database of publications by topic and annual analysis.

Olivia Golden is a senior fellow and director of Assessing the New Federalism Project at the Urban Institute, a policy research group in Washington, D.C. From 1997 to 2001, she was assistant secretary for children and families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She said in a July 24, 2005, commentary that welfare reform has succeeded in […]

Isabel Sawhill is senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings, where she works with the Center on Children and Families and the Future of the Middle Class Initiative. She served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave.

The Office of Family Assistance in the Administration for Children and Families (within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) administers welfare and keeps statistics.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler is a history professor at the Catholic University of America and the author of Catholics and Contraception: An American History.

Hannah Smith is senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing employers in several legal challenges to the birth control mandate.