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President Barack Obama speaks at a National Leadership Convening on poverty in May 2015.

Poverty

Overcoming poverty in the richest nation on earth is a moral imperative and urgent national priority. Poverty has economic, political, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. These dialogues explore the human and moral costs of poverty and how people with differing political, ideological, and religious perspectives can work together to lift people out of poverty in the United States and internationally.

Events

Young boy playing alone
May
31
2023

Whatever Happened to Matthew 25?

In the Gospel description of the Last Judgement, there is really only one question: how do we treat “the least of these” (Matthew 25:40). In the midst of an intense battle over federal budget cuts and raising the debt ceiling, the central moral criteria are how the lives and dignity of “the least…

Other Events

Videos

The Consistent Ethic of Life in 2023: Solidarity with Those Who are Poor and Vulnerable

January 19, 2023

Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes

Moral Principles, National Priorities, Budget Choices

September 16, 2021

Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes

Overcoming Poverty as a Moral Imperative and National Priority: Towards “A Better Kind of Politics”

March 1, 2021

Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes