References to the common good are, well, quite common these days. It seems the common good is everywhere. Apparently, it’s a medical research company in Australia. It’s a single-use, plastic packaging ...

There is an ancient idea that we have lost, but can and should find again. It’s called simply the common good. It goes back many centuries, but the need for a new dialogue about what it means and what ...

Against a backdrop of irresponsible leadership and distrust of institutions, there is a pervasive sense among the citizens of many countries that they are not well served by authorities and the ...

As chronicled in countless news stories and reports, trust in social institutions is low. The integrity and transparency of these institutions gets a bad grade from the public, and social institutions ...

As an Alutiiq, my worldview and cultural values give me a specific lens through which to understand “common good.” It is a lens rooted in important questions about relationships between people, people ...

Last time, in this space, we looked at the first pillar of Catholic social teaching: the dignity of the human person. This is a concept that is easily familiar to many Catholics, particularly since it ...

One of the themes that covers both sections 5 and 6 is the unequal distribution of material possessions. Pope Francis points out that "We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We, the people. But individual rights. The common good. But don’t tread on me. Form a more perfect union and promote the general welfare. But secure the ...

“I’ve never been where the discussion of the middle-ground was,” said Claire Pacer, a first-year student from Wheaton, Illinois. Where Pacer grew up, she says, “it was a lot of black and white, here’s ...

It's too early to calculate the price of the pandemic. To date, more than 600,000 Americans have died and over 34 million have gotten sick. Economists estimate trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, ...

A tenet that all leaders with Coloradans for the Common Good are taught early in their training is that there are two poles of power in our society: organized people and organized money. At CCG’s ...