The Rev. Thomas J. Massaro was associate professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. He wrote Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Liturgical Press, 1998). He also co-wrote the article “Compassion in Action: A Letter to President Bush on Social Policy” for the journal America (2001). Massaro became the Dean of Jesuit […]

July 16, 2013 The Huffington Post article about an exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York detailing the street stories of LGTBQ people since 1969.

John Fitzgerald is a professor of economics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, who researches family well-being and welfare.

Ellwood is a professor of political economy and dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1993-95 and co-chaired then-President Clinton’s Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support and Independence. With both academic expertise and policy […]

July 9, 2009, NBCNews.com blog post about a faith-based group that was opposed to the Boy Scouts of America’s decision regarding gay members starting an alternative group to the Boy Scouts.

Malcolm Potts is an obstetrician and reproductive scientist and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has studied oral contraceptives since the 1960s and says the Catholic Church needs to recognize the health benefits – aside from contraception – of the birth control pill.

Thomas A. Cavanaugh is a philosophy professor at the University of San Francisco and one of nearly 100 scholars nationwide who signed a letter denouncing Obama’s contraception coverage mandate.

Read the New York Times obituary here.

Read The Washington Post obituary, “Oral Roberts, 91; trailblazing, empire-building evangelist.”